Shearing No 2
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: c.1929-1932
Artist: Myrtle Fasken (1889-1972)
Dimensions:
Image: 130 x 95 mm (13 x 9.5 cm)
Sheet: 265 x 208 mm (26.5 x 20.8 cm)
Medium: Wood engraving. Black ink on fine, light laid paper
Object number: P.2012.68.M.2
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.
