About this artwork
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artist:William McCance (1894 - 1970) Scottish
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title:Six Initial Letters for 'The Fables of Esope' (Series C)
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date created:1932
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materials:Wood engravings on paper
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measurements:26.40 x 14.40 cm (Letters each approximately 4.50 x 4.60 cm)
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1992
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accession number:GMA 3619
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William McCance
William McCance
McCance was born in a suburb of Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1911-5. In 1918 he married a fellow student, Agnes Miller Parker (one of Britain's leading wood-engravers), and they moved to London two years later. In the early 1920s McCance developed a machine-inspired, near...