British Council Collection
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.’
Glossary
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Edition
All copies of a book, print, portfolio, sculpture, etc., issued or produced at one time or from a single set of type. Printed works can be made in an edition of between one and many thousands of copies. With most printing techniques the plate or screen will become worn if very many prints are made, so to maintain quality (and exclusivity) editions of original prints are usually kept below one hundred copies and normally average between thirty and fifty copies. Prints made up of several different plates can be extremely complicated and time-consuming to edition, so in these cases editions are kept low for practical reasons. Sculptural editions are a set of cast sculptures taken from the same mould or master. These editions are usually much lower, consisting of no more than six casts. Though each cast in an edition might have a lower value than a unique piece, it may be a more effective way of offsetting costs of an expensive process such as bronze casting.
