An Antelope c.1937 |
| |
Original linocut.
Signed in pencil.
S 189 x 265 mm; I (outer border) 176 x 254 mm
SOLD
|
|
|
A very fine example of this gifted artist's distinctive animal studies.
William Neave Parker was an original printmaker who worked both in linocut and with wood engraving, producing only very small editions of ten or less impressions, normally printed on thin Japan-style paper. Parker specialised in wildlife studies and in 1937 he published an album entitled A Picture Book of Linocuts, containing twenty linocut depictions of animals. After the Second World War he was introduced to William Elgin Swinton (1900-1994), a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London and it was here that he was to spend most of his working life, engaged mainly on the reconstruction of dinosaurs and in creating illustrations of prehistoric animals which were published widely throughout the 1950's.
On fine yellow Japan-style tissue. Tipped down at corners to backing sheet. Minor creasing affecting Japan sheet, otherwise good condition. |
|
