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Vertical Crustacean: P.38-2007

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Vertical Crustacean

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Evans, Merlyn Oliver
Printer: Gresham, Kip
Publisher: The Estate of Merlyn Oliver Evans

Entities

Categories

Place(s) associated

  • Cambridge (Cambs.)

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2007) by The Print Studio, Cambridge

Dating

Production date: AD 2006

Note

Edition size 25 (restrikes). Zinc plate approx. 2mm thick. Heavy wax coating with glassine and bend in plate. Wax removed to reveal striation in the metal with much metal grain evident. foulbiting around edges, scratches mid left edge and at top in image. The soft bends tend towards pleating of paper hence thickness of plate. Printed edition: Hotplate at 40 degrees. used mostly butter muslin and tissue to wipe. paper dampened for 2 days before edition. run with 2 frontings only to avoid pleating, plate tone diminished very slowly over the running of the edition as the metal polished slightly, drypoint held up very well

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Coloured ink

Components of the work

Support composed of paper ( English Whatman 140lb Ivory hand made paper 1960 - from artist's own store. Torn and deckle edges)
Plate Height 497 mm Width 260 mm

Techniques used in production

Etching : On zinc.
Drypoint

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.38-2007
Primary reference Number: 160910
Erskine [Evans]: 28
Evans: 49
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 7 January 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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