[Mountain landscape]
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Maker: Noel Rooke
Dimensions:
200 x 284 mm (20 x 28.4 cm)
Image: 150 x 226 mm (15 x 22.6 cm)
Sheet: 200 x 284 mm (20 x 28.4 cm)
Medium: Ink on wove paper
Object number: P.1704.1
DescriptionUnmounted and unsigned - perhaps an early proof. Further suggesting this, a sister image - P.1704.2 - is printed on a different stock, heavier than this particular print, which is on a light (Japanese-like) paper. Perhaps influenced by the difference in paper stocks, the blocks appear to have been inked with a far lighter touch than P.1704.2 which is, as a result, much darker and a little stronger.
The date has been influenced by striking stylisytic similarities between this print and P.1694 - 'Zinal Rothorn' - which was dated by Justin Howes in his article on Rooke in issue 3 of Matrix, and the publication of that same print in Clare Leighton's 'Wood Engraving of the 1930s', published by The Studio Ltd., London, in 1936.
The date has been influenced by striking stylisytic similarities between this print and P.1694 - 'Zinal Rothorn' - which was dated by Justin Howes in his article on Rooke in issue 3 of Matrix, and the publication of that same print in Clare Leighton's 'Wood Engraving of the 1930s', published by The Studio Ltd., London, in 1936.
