About this artwork
Lithographs can be made using a traditional stone surface, or alternatively the printmaker can draw their design on a finely grained zinc or aluminium plate. Elizabeth Blackadder’s lithograph Cats and Flowers was worked up from a small pencil sketch, using six metal plates for the different colours. There are two shades of green in this print, which were printed from the same plate. A paler wash was printed first, then the plate was reworked for the dark green of the flower stems and foliage.
Published November 2023
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artist:Elizabeth Blackadder (1931 - 2021) Scottish
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title:Cats and Flowers
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date created:1980
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materials:Colour lithograph on paper (24/75)
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measurements:Paper size: 62.00 x 83.70 cm (framed: 87.30 x 116.80 x 23.60 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1980
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accession number:GMA 2207
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glossary:
Elizabeth Blackadder
Elizabeth Blackadder
Painter and printmaker Elizabeth Blackadder was born in Falkirk. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art under William Gillies, and lectured at the college from 1962 until her retirement in 1986. In 1956 she married fellow artist John Houston. Blackadder was well known for her delicate paintings of...