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The Plough, 1928
Linocut printed from five blocks in yellow ochre, spectrum red,
permanent blue oil paint, viridian and Chinese blue.
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil from the edition of 60
25.8 x 29.5 cm (10¼ x 11½ in)
Literature:
Linocuts of the Machine Age , Stephen Coppel, published by Scolar
Press, 1995, ES 13, p.170
This very rare print by Spowers shows the plough going from right
to left. There is a later edition of 50 of the same subject reversed
titled 'Birds Following a Plough' also in an edition of 50 in 1933
(see Coppel ES 26). There is also a woodcut of the same subject
made in 1929.
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