£1,320 

Frank Brangwyn:
Original design for the woodblock Horresco (V2125), circa 1918
Framed (ref: 3237)

Black wash on paper, 

3 x 2 1/2 in. (7.5 × 6.4 cm)

Tags: Frank Brangwyn plate war No Mans Land WW-1 Paintings

Provenance: Ct.William de Belleroche; private collection since 1968.

Literature: Walter Shaw Sparrow, Prints and Drawings by Frank Brangwyn, John Lane, London, 1919, illus. p. 57; Dominique Marechal, Collectie Frank Brangwyn, Bruges 1987, illus. p. 266 (inv. 0.2/90(1).III).

‘Horresco’ is a reference to the latin phrase horresco referens: I shudder as I tell the story.

Horresco is V2125 in Libby Horner’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné.