Stonehenge
Print
1961 (made)
1961 (made)
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| Place of origin |
To create this print the artist Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988) used two shaped plates: a smaller disc printed in orange and a shaped plate in black for the stones. The shapes of the platemarks can be clearly seen impressed into the paper. Trevelyan combined hand-drawn needle marks with open bite techniques. For the orange sun, he used sugar lift aquatint of a coarse grain. The larger shaped plate was printed in black, with pale grey achieved by a light surface-tone of ink left on the plate after wiping. The henge’s rough appearance is creve – patches of closely drawn lines that have been over-etched.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Stonehenge (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Aquatint on paper |
| Brief description | Print by Julian Trevelyan, 'Stonehenge', aquatint on paper, Great Britain, 1961 |
| Physical description | A print depicting a stylised image of Stonehenge showing the sun between the standing stones. |
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| Copy number | 28/50 |
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| Subject depicted | |
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| Summary | To create this print the artist Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988) used two shaped plates: a smaller disc printed in orange and a shaped plate in black for the stones. The shapes of the platemarks can be clearly seen impressed into the paper. Trevelyan combined hand-drawn needle marks with open bite techniques. For the orange sun, he used sugar lift aquatint of a coarse grain. The larger shaped plate was printed in black, with pale grey achieved by a light surface-tone of ink left on the plate after wiping. The henge’s rough appearance is creve – patches of closely drawn lines that have been over-etched. |
| Bibliographic reference | Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1961 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.242-1961 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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