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Sydney Lee , English, 1866-1949

Title

The Wave

Date1914

MediumWood engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 35.7 x 25 cm

Mount: 53.5 x 44.9 cm

Signedlower right (in pencil): Sydney Lee

Credit LinePresented, Brian Lalor Print Collection, 2014

Object numberNGI.2014.88

DescriptionSydney Lee was born into a Lancashire mill-owning family. He studied at the Manchester School of Art where the Head of the Design School, Walter Crane, inspired his interest in Japanese design and printing techniques. Lee experimented with different printmaking tools and papers and tried, as he said himself, to imbue his prints "with poetry and feeling". This dramatic image pays homage to renowned Japanese printmaker Hokusai’s popular print ‘Great Wave of Kanagawa’ c.1830.
Inscriptionlower left: THE WAVE [scratched out]
lower centre: THE WAVE
lower right: SYDNEY LEE