Ethel Spowers - The Plough, 1928

Ethel Spowers

The Plough, 1928
Linocut printed in 3 blocks (emerald green; cobalt blue; mauve) on buff oriental laid tissue
17.3 x 26.6 cm (6 ¾ x 10 ½ in)
20.6 x 31.6 cm (8 ⅛ x 12 ½ in) sheet
Signed, titled, numbered and dated below image

Printed from 3 blocks in emerald green, cobalt blue & mauve.

This very rare print by Spowers shows the plough going from right to left. There is a later edition of 50 of the same subject reversed titled ‘Birds Following a Plough’ also in an edition of 50 in 1933 (see Coppel ES 26). There is also a woodcut of the same subject made in 1929.

Private Collection, Australia

Osborne Samuel Gallery

Linocuts of the Machine Age , Stephen Coppel, published by Scolar Press, 1995, ES 13, p.170