About this artwork
In 1937 Miller Parker created 83 black and white engravings to accompany H.E. Bates’ ‘Down the River’, a collection of essays describing the English countryside. This image was included in the chapter ‘Water Flowers and Water Creatures’. Miller Parker received popular acclaim for her illustrations - one reviewer for The Observer at the time of publication wrote, ‘It is a long time since I saw anything so absolutely suitable as the wood-engravings of Agnes Miller Parker. Very few modern books have been so brilliantly illustrated.’ Parker also created illustrations for Bates’ similar anthology ‘Through the Woods’ in 1936.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Agnes Miller Parker (1895 - 1980) Scottish
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title:Iris, Rushes and Burweed (for 'Down the River' by H.E. Bates)
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date created:Dated 1937
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materials:Wood engraving on paper (10/35)
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measurements:17.70 x 12.40 cm (paper 26.70 x 21.00 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1949
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accession number:GMA 468
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Agnes Miller Parker
Agnes Miller Parker
Agnes Miller Parker was born in Irvine, Ayrshire and studied at Glasgow School of Art. She later taught at the School before marrying fellow student William McCance. The couple moved to London in 1920. Parker’s work of the 1920s is influenced by the Cubist and Vorticist movements. In the early...
