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Description: | Colour print from wood blocks. Various flowers and fruits growing from a central vertical main branch. On one side branch a large magpie squawks at a colourful butterlfy; on another a smaller magpie squawks at a fly; and on a third two parrots watch. The flowers are in reds, blues and yellows, the magpies are mainly blue, black and grey and the parrots red and green. It is printed on a light grey, slightly roughened background. This paper is probably based on a hand painted Chinese original of the mid-eighteenth century.
Technique: block printed
Material: paper
The Chinese Magpie by William Turner, Jeffrey & Co, 1915, (1934.22/35xv). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.23625 | Go to resource |
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