Eric Ravilious: Children In A Park: (Original Wood Engraving) (1987) (Merivale Editions)

Eric Ravilious was born in London in 1903. He studied and later taught at the Royal College of Art. He is now recognised as a key figure of the great renaissance period of English art and design in the 1920’s and 30’s. His wood-engravings for the Curwen, Nonesuch and Golden Cockerel Presses and design commissions for Wedgwood represent his best known work. He was also a distinguished painter. He died on active service as a war artist in 1942.

CHILDREN IN A PARK (sometimes titled By The Dewpond*)* is an engraving on boxwood. It was first exhibited in an edition of 20 copies priced three guineas at the Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1926. It is here printed from the original block on hand-made Japanese vellum paper in an edition of 100 copies, of which 25 are reserved for the Ravilious family, with whose permission the edition is published. The printing has been undertaken on a hand press by Ian Mortimer at I.M. Imprimit.

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