Shearing No 1
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: C.1929-1932
Artist: Myrtle Fasken (1889-1972)
Dimensions:
Image: 130 x 100 mm (13 x 10 cm)
Sheet: 265 x 206 mm (26.5 x 20.6 cm)
Medium: wood engraving. Black ink on fine, light laid paper
Object number: P.2012.68.M.1
DescriptionWood engraving depicting the beginning of the process of shearing a sheep. In 1929 Myrtle Fasken visited her brother's sheep shearing station at Spring Valley, Victoria. Back in London she turned what she had seen into a series of wood engravings.
