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Mice in cage
« Previous picture (3) Etching by Françoise Taylor, 1946Actual size: 350mm high x 270mm wide From selected engravings and etchings « Previous picture (3)
Back street (Bolton, early 1950s)
« Previous picture (6) | Next picture (8) » Engraving by Françoise Taylor, early 1950sActual size: 250mm high x 350mm wide(paper yellowing slightly) From selected engravings and etchings « Previous picture (6) | Next picture (8) »
Christmas shopping
« Previous picture (5) | Next picture (7) » Engraving by Françoise Taylor, early 1950sActual size: 250mm high x 350mm wide(paper yellowing slightly) Probably based on Whitakers department store in Bolton. ‘Christmas’ is wrongly spelled. Françoise was still learning English at the time. No-one in the picture seems to be actually shopping. It has the […]
Ahasverus on the way to Hell
From ‘The Wandering Jew’ « Previous picture (8) Woodcut by Françoise Taylor, circa 1944Woodcut size: 128mm high x 97mm wide From ‘De wandelende Jood’ (The Wandering Jew), a 1906 novel by the Belgian writer August Vermeylen. ‘Ahasverus op Weg naar de Hel‘ (Flemish) translates as ‘Ahasverus on the way to Hell‘. From selected woodcuts « […]
De Jean Coste
« Previous picture (12) | What a beautiful world » La pauvreté (poverty) Pen and wash by Françoise Taylor, circa 1944Actual size: 280mm high x 180mm wide ‘De Jean Coste’ is an essay by the French poet and essayist Charles Péguy written in about 1901. On the back of the picture the artist has written […]
Floere het Fluwijn
« Previous picture (7) | Next picture (9) » Etching by Françoise Taylor, circa 1945Actual size: 145mm high x 117mm wide Rats (or other field animals), one caught in trap. From a series of etchings for ‘Floere het Fluwijn’, a story by the Flemish writer Door Ernest Claes about a young man on a farm […]
Christ on the cross
« Previous picture (5) | Next picture (7) » Woodcut by Françoise Taylor, circa 1944Actual size: 101mm high x 197mm wide From selected woodcuts « Previous picture (5) | Next picture (7) »
De Wandelende Jood
The Wandering Jew « Previous picture (7) | Next picture (9) » Woodcut by Françoise Taylor, circa 1944Woodcut size: 128mm high x 97mm wide Cover page for ten pages of typography with woodcuts Françoise Taylor produced for ‘De Wandelende Jood’ (The Wandering Jew), a 1906 novel by the Belgian writer August Vermeylen. From selected woodcuts […]
La Guerre (inside cover)
Text from Nazi poet Kurt Eggers: ‘Von Kampf und Krieg’ « Cover | Example pictures from ‘La Guerre’ » Inside coverTypography by Françoise Taylor, August 1945Actual size: 392mm high x 292mm wide Verheissung Solange ein Volk / Noch krieger gebiert / Ist er gerecht / Solange ein Volk / Zich zum kampfe bekehrt / Wird er […]
Musician
« Previous picture (11) | Next picture (13) » Pen and gouache by Françoise Taylor, circa 1944Actual size: 380mm high x 268mm wide From other pictures by Françoise Taylor « Previous picture (11) | Next picture (13) »