Edward Wadsworth
A Black Country Village (or Northern Roofscape)
About this artwork
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title:A Black Country Village (or Northern Roofscape)
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accession number:GMA 2043
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materials:Woodcut on paper
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date created:1920
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measurements:15.30 x 10.20 cm (paper 28.30 x 17.00 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1978
Edward Wadsworth
Edward Wadsworth
Wadsworth was born in Yorkshire. After a brief period spent studying engineering in Munich, he attended the Slade School of Fine Art, London from 1909 to 1912. Wadsworth was one of the original members of Wyndham Lewis's vorticist movement and one of the first British artists to adopt a machine-orientated…