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Date: 1924
Object Type: book
Catalogue number: K2871
Illustrator: Brangwyn, Frank, Sir (1867 - 1956)
Author: Hardie, Martin (1875 - 1952)
Credit notes: Presented by Martin Adams, 2013

This souvenir edition was produced for the British Empire Exhibition held at Wembley Park. The volume has colour lithographic illustrations throughout by Spencer Pryse, including a four panel foldout plate to the rear by Frank Brangwyn. The exhibition was conceived by the British Empire League and ultimately acted as a form of propaganda to promote a white supremacist racial hierarchy. The exhibition featured ‘Human zoos’, with mocked up villages populated by 273 people on display from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, kept in compounds on the Wembley site for several months of the exhibition.

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Dimensions: 17.5 x 13.8
Object Type: print
Material: paper
Technique: etching
Catalogue number: P533
Artist: Brangwyn, Frank, Sir (1867 - 1956)
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1973

Proof of an illustration for Jerome and Jean Tharaud’s book “L’Ombre de la Croix”, Editions Lapina, Paris, 1931, PL. 37 facing p. 118. Frank Brangwyn did 63 etched illustrations for this based on the lives of Jews in Europe, another of which is P532. A majority of his etchings appear to be set in the town of Belz, Poland. The Jewish community migrated to Belz in the late 14th Century, where it then became a place of pilgrimage. The book “L’ombre de la Croix” was originally published in 1917. At this time, the Zionist Organisation was becoming more prominent in Belz, hence resulting in the Jewish communities slowly repatriating to Palestine. This occured in 1917 after the ‘Balfour Decleration’ was passed by the British governement, supporting the establishment of a Jewish home in Palestine. At present, there is no evidence of Brangwyn setting foot in Poland, therefore, the assumption is that he used photographs, the text descriptions in the book or his own knowldge of the Jewish communities around him when completing his etchings.

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Date: c.1931
Dimensions: 13.8 x 12.5
Object Type: print
Material: paper
Technique: etching
Catalogue number: P532
Artist: Brangwyn, Frank, Sir (1867 - 1956)
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1972

Proof of an illustration for Jerome and Jean Tharaud’s book “L’Ombre de la Croix”, Editions Lapina, Paris, 1931, Pl. 52 facing p. 172. Brangwyn did 63 etched illustrations for this, another of which is P 533. A majority of his etchings appear to be set in the town of Belz, Poland. The Jewish community migrated to Belz in the late 14th Century, where it then became a place of pilgrimage. The book “L’ombre de la Croix” was originally published in 1917. At this time, the Zionist Organisation was becoming more prominent in Belz, hence resulting in the Jewish communities slowly repatriating to Palestine. This occured in 1917 after the ‘Balfour Decleration’ was passed by the British governement, supporting the establishment of a Jewish home in Palestine. At present, there is no evidence of Brangwyn setting foot in Poland, therefore, the assumption is that he used photographs, the text descriptions in the book or his own knowldge of the Jewish communities around him when completing his etchings.

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Date: 1919
Dimensions: 18.5 x 18
Object Type: print
Material: paper
Technique: etching on copper
Catalogue number: BrP144
Artist: Brangwyn, Frank, Sir (1867 - 1956)
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1936

‘Vieux Saules’. Second state. Three impressions only taken of the first state in which the left side of the plate was joined to another etching ‘Trees, Longpre, No. 2’ a copy of which is in the collection, see P 519 / ii. A copy of this first state, showing the lane leading down to a river with factories beyond is in the British Museum (BM 1943 – 12 – 11 – 239). This background was taken out and re-worked when the plate was divided.

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