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Claude Flight, designer

Policeman Holding Up Traffic, ca. 1927

Description

Maker

  • Claude Flight, 1881-1955, English, designer

Title

Policeman Holding Up Traffic

Year

ca. 1927

Medium

color linocut

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • color linocut

Supports

  • Very light weight Oriental tissue paper mounted on heavy weight grey wove paper.

Dimensions

30.6 x 14 cm (12 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Recto: titled in pencil in LC:Policeman hold up traffic; numbered on brown paper tape along bottom of print:M.889CSL; in black ink on brown paper tape along bottom of print:Police holding up the traffic/Claude Flight £2.2.0; in black ink arrows on tissue paper, marking all four corners; signed in pencil in LC:CLAUDE FLIGHT;numbered in LR:16/50

Identification

Edition

16/50

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gif of Mr. and Mrs. Gilman Angier

Object Number

79.038

Projects & Publications

Publications

The Grosvenor School British Linocuts Between the Wars

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The English Eye

June 21 - September 1, 1991

The Grosvenor School

January 22 - March 20, 1988

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Policeman Holding Up Traffic with the accession number of 79.038. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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