The Resting Place - Scutari (in collaboration with Frank Brangwyn)

 

Yoshijiro Urushibara

  1888 - 1953 (biography)

1924  

color woodcut 

6 11/16 x 8 1/2" image size 

pencil signed, lower left 

90/250 plus 20 special proofs 

 

Binyon, plate 3 

antique-white Japanese hosho 

published 

John Lane: The Bodley Head Limited, London. 

19511 

SOLD

This color woodcut was plate 3 and was included in a portfolio titled 'Ten Woodcuts by Yoshijiro Urushibara' done in 1924 and published by John Lane in London in 1924. The portfolio included an introduction by Laurence Binyon. The woodcuts were cut and printed by Urushibara after watercolors by his friend and collaborator, British artist Frank Brangwyn. Urushibara hand printed an edition of 250 plus 20 artist's proofs that were not offered for sale. He used different Japanes papers and signed 7 of the images with pencil, in the European tradition and the other 3 with his seal signature in red ink. 'The Resting Place, Scutari' depicts a Chrimean cemetery in Scultari (now Üsküdar), Turkey that covers 8 acres and houses a memorial that was built to honor the British Crimean war dead. The memorial was supervised by W.H. Lyne of the Royal Engineers. The cemetary contains the burial places for 17 British and Indian prisoners of war. Brangwyn did an etching of the cemetery in 1904 (Gaunt 31).