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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
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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