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Details
- Other Title
- The ring
- Date
- (1923)
- Media category
- Materials used
- wood engraving
- Dimensions
- 27.6 x 21.1 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs Napier Waller 1977
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 9.1977
- Copyright
- © Courtesy Trustees of the Waller Estate
- Artist information
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Napier Waller
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About
Wailer's subject was taken from English poet William Morris' 'Sigurd the Volsung' (1876), his translation of the epic Icelandic narrative poem 'Volsunga saga' (from which Wagner's opera 'The ring' also originates). The only wood engraving made by the artist, it is remarkable for its monumental quality and for Wailer's mastery of this demanding technique with his left hand, due to loss of his right arm during World War I.
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Nicholas Draffin, Australian woodcuts and linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s, South Melbourne, 1976, 11, 25 (illus.). titled 'The ring'
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Kirsty Grant and Jason Smith, In relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts and linocuts, Melbourne, 1997, 28 (colour illus.). titled 'The ring'; dated 1923; Collection of National Gallery of Victoria
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