Title: | 1952P21 Urne Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus |
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Description: |
1952P21 - page 4 Book - Urne Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus, 1932 Artist: Paul Nash (d. 1946) Author: Sir Thomas Browne Printer: Curwen Press Publisher: Cassell & Co Ltd *The text is from Quintillian's Institutio Oratoria VIII.3.ix: “Quid [illo] quincunce speciosius, qui, in quamcumque partem spectaveris, rectus est?”; roughly, “What more beautiful [way to plant trees] than the quincunx, that, from whatever direction you regard it, presents straight lines?” |
Keywords: |
Book, Abstract, Birmingham Museums Trust/Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Illustration, NPO Digitisation Project, Works on Paper |
Usage Rights: | Creative Commons 0 - Public Domain. Optional attribution: Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0 |
Height: | 313 |
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Width: | 232 |
Depth: | 42 |
Unit: | mm |
Credit Line: | Presented by the Friends of Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, 1952. |