University LibraryPrint Collection

Title:

Saxon Ship at Sutton Hoo

Object 1

Collection Title:

Baillieu Library - Wright Collection

Accession Number:

1964.2652.000.000

Creator:

Robins, William Palmer

Place of birth:

Great Britain

Creation Date:

(1939)

Object Category:

prints

Medium:

drypoint

Technique:

intaglio

State:

second state

Edition Notes:

first state of same plate (unique proof) [this information taken from the notes tab made by original cataloguer Heather Lowe] [KS].

Dimensions:

Type	Height	Width	Depth	Diameter	Unit (Lengths)	Weight	Unit (Weight)
plate	22.8	37.8			cm
sheet	29.3	45.7			cm

Inscription:

signed l.l., printed: "W P Robins" ; signed l.r. corner, handwritten in pencil "W.P.Robins."

Other Inscriptions:

inscribed l.l. corner, handwritten in pencil (H.Wright'S Hand): "W 230 ... (Excavated 1939) 80 Ft Long (2Nd State = Published State. 150 Proofs Thus." inscribed l.l. corner, handwritten in pencil: "To Harold Wright/ Saxon ship at Sutton Hoo."

Catalogue Raisonne:

Wright 230ii

Credit Line:

Baillieu Library Collection, the University of Melbourne. Gift of Mrs L.I. Wright 1964.

Narratives:

Saxon Ship at Sutton Hoo exhibition label

Hide and seek: the play of light and dark in prints from the Baillieu Library Print Collection at the University of Melbourne

William Palmer Robins

Robins and Harold Wright

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