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THE MIGHTY ANGEL 1933

Blair Hughes-Stanton (1902 – 1981)

Details

Dimension
21.1 X 12.6 CM
Media
WOOD ENGRAVING
Accession number
P2453

Summary

The writer, D H Lawrence, had suggested to Hughes-Stanton that he illustrate an edition of The Revelation of St John the Divine. The artist considered these engravings amongst his best and gave full rein to his imagination; the images seeming to owe little to orthodox Christian iconography. The publication of the book coincided with the opening of an exhibition of Hughes-Stanton work at the Zwemmer Gallery in London. John Gould Fletcher writing on the exhibition catalogue observed ‘… Hughes-Stanton is in spirit less cosmopolitan than English. There is always about his work a peculiar lyrical quality that makes it akin to Blake, to Turner or to Augustus John.