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Line block for the binding of The Dreaming Youths

Maker


1886-1980

Title

Line block for the binding of The Dreaming Youths

Date of Production

1917

Medium

zinc

Dimensions

Height: 10.8 cm
Width: 8.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1978.PG.88.11

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / DACS 2023

Location

Not currently on display

Label Text

Line block printing, refined in the 1870’s, involves photographing a drawing and printing the negative onto a photosensitised metal plate. The plate is immersed in acid to form a low relief and then printed in the same manner as a woodblock. Kokoschka designed this line block label for the cover of the book, with the same design stamped in gold on the protective box.

Notes

Probably bound or worked on by F. Sangorski & G.Sutcliffe bookbinders, 1-5 Poland street, Oxford street, London, for Count Seilern (as indicated by an envelope that accompanied the block).

Provenance

Acquired by Count Seilern at auction, Karl & Faber, Munich, 14-16 May 1962, lot 1451 (ex-collection Becker); Princes Gate Bequest, 1978

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