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A Snipe: P.365-1949

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

A Snipe

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Seaby, Allen William

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Description

Accessioned under the title 'A Curlew', but the bird depicted can be clearly identified as a snipe by its distinctive striped plumage and long, straight beak. An impression of the same print at the British Museum, 1914,0529.1, is also tentatively identified as a snipe with a note that an impression was exhibited as no. 37 in the Spring 1913 exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (CHECK TITLE In CATALOGUE).

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Campbell Dodgson, 1949

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1949) by Dodgson, Campbell

Dating

20th Century
Production date: circa AD 1913

Techniques used in production

Colour printing
Woodcut

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: A.W. Seaby
  • Location: Margin, lower right
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Type: Signature

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.365-1949
Primary reference Number: 309547
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 12 July 2022 Updated: Thursday 2 March 2023 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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