Details
Original engraving on boxwood, printed from the blocks in an
edition of 500 copies on 225gsm Zerkall mould-made paper by Ian
Mortimer at I.M. Imprimit. This engraving and
The
Crocodile were commissioned in 1929 by Oliver Simon for a
projected but never completed calendar to have been published
by the Curwen Press.
Tirza Ravilious (née Garwood) was born in Eastbourne in
1908. At the age of 17, she entered the Eastbourne School of Art,
where she was taught wood engraving by Eric Ravilious, whom she
married in 1930. Her collected wood engravings, mainly produced
between 1927 and 1931, have been reproduced in The
Wood Engravings of Tirza Ravilious (Gordon Fraser,1987).
Despite her obvious skill as an engraver, from 1931 until her
early death in 1951, she turned her talents to printing and decorative
design.
Other work by Tirza Ravilious
Merivale Prints: The
Crocodile
