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LANCHESTER, MARY. 1864-[after 1939].
Archive of artwork by British printmaker Mary Lanchester, comprising:
1. A group of 21 drawings and watercolors, mostly of flowers and birds, with some landscape scenes, various sizes, 310 x 239 mm and smaller, on paper, unsigned. Browning, some creases. Most loose, one framed.

6 – 13 December 2018, 10:00 EST
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LANCHESTER, MARY. 1864-[after 1939].

Archive of artwork by British printmaker Mary Lanchester, comprising:
1. A group of 21 drawings and watercolors, mostly of flowers and birds, with some landscape scenes, various sizes, 310 x 239 mm and smaller, on paper, unsigned. Browning, some creases. Most loose, one framed.
2. 16 color woodcut prints by Lanchester, 230 x 140 mm and smaller, including scenes of a women's suffrage march in London, rural scenes, 4 images from The France Book, and some Christmas card designs, some signed in print. Unmounted.
3. The France Book. [Privately printed], n.d. 28 pp. Tall 8vo. Printed brown paper wrappers, brown paper pages with white text opposite color woodcut illustrations, folded but not bound. Stamped on back wrapper "Designed and Coloured by M. Lanchester." 2 COPIES. Minimal wear.
4. SCOTSON-CLARK, GEORGE FREDERICK. 1872-1927. 2 colored woodcuts, Vesta Victoria and Harry Randall, 207 x 179 mm each. Some spitting, scuff to upper right corner of second title, just touching image border. Hinged to boards and matted.
5. 4 books from Lanchester's collection, including Love and Friendship by Jane Austen, Riverside Nights by A.P. Herbert and Nigel Playfair, Curiosities of Great Britain, England and Wales by Thomas Dugdale, 8vo, (disbound illustration plates only), and The Week-End Book, Penguin paperback, in 2 volumes.

Mary Lanchester was a specialist in colored woodcut prints who studied at the Brighton School of Art. Her print of the suffrage procession, dating from 1910, can be found in the collection of the British Museum.

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