Shearing No 4
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: c.1929-1932
Artist: Myrtle Fasken (1889-1972)
Dimensions:
Image: 130 x 99 mm (13 x 9.9 cm)
Sheet: 267 x 207 mm (26.7 x 20.7 cm)
Medium: Wood engraving. Black ink on fine, light laid paper
Object number: P.2012.68.M.4
DescriptionWood engraving depicting 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.
