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Works owned by the Estate of Kenneth Taylor (continued)

• 0200: 1 etching (with aquatint or watercolour), THREE WISE MEN on camels, star of the east in sky
  No date
  301mm high x 256mm wide
• 0201: 1 engraving, BOLTON FAIRGROUND with big wheel, Shaw’s Helter Skelter, mill, and car in foreground, right edge of paper folded and torn
  No date
  354mm high x 254mm wide
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• 0202: 17 woodcuts (series of 3 images and 2 different covers), CHATS, in a cardboard folder with “CHATS” written on in pencil. The images are CAT on roof (8), CAT with lamp post(7), and CAT on carpet (13). See also 0006 from the same series but not in the cardboard folder. The folder also contains 7 cover pages with two smaller woodcuts on, and 3 cover pages with “Poème de Charles Baudelaire CHATS” in typography which says that 6 examples of the series were printed by l’ENSAAD on 9th November 1949. Part of the works which Françoise submitted to Brussels for her Distinction and Mastery in book illustration (see note 3)
  November 1949
  179mm high x 154mm wide (the woodcuts), 296mm high x 228mm wide (the paper)
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• 0203: 9 woodcuts (6 different images), CXCVI FABLES D’ESOPE (Æsop’s Fables), in two paper booklets each containing three of the prints (all loose) which are titled: ‘Le Porc Epic et Les Serpents’ (2), ‘La Fourmi et la Sauterelle’ (1), ‘Le Thon et le Dauphin’ (1) in one booklet and ‘L’Ours et les Abeilles’ (3), ‘Le Chien et La Vache’ (1), ‘Le Rat des Villes et le Rat des Champs’ (1) in the other. The booklet cover has the title and some text in typography. Part of the works which Françoise submitted to Brussels for her Distinction and Mastery in book illustration (see note 3)
  No date
  100mm high x 118mm wide (the woodcuts), 255mm high x 202mm wide (the booklets and paper)
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• 0204: 10 woodcuts (5 different images), DE WANDELENDE JOOD (The Wandering Jew), in two paper booklets each containing four of the prints (all loose) which are titled: ‘Ahasverus en de nazarener’, ‘Ahasverus op weg naar de hel’, ‘Ahasverus op weg den hemel’, ‘Ahasverus onder de menschen’. As well as a woodcut, each print has the image title and some Flemish text in typography. They are on folded sheets of paper with Flemish text and page numbers on some of the other sides. The booklet cover has the title, a woodcut, and the name of the author (August Vermeylen)
  No date
  128mm high x 97mm wide (the woodcuts), 294mm high x 236mm wide (the booklets and paper)
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• 0205: 13 lithographs (8 different images), L’IDIOT, (Dostoievski), in a paper folder with the title and a smaller version of one of the images on it. The folder contains 13 mounted prints and an inside sheet with typography which says there are three copies, all printed on 17th October at the National High School of Architecture and Decorative Arts of Brussels. Some of the prints have colourwash. Part of the works which Françoise submitted to Brussels for her Distinction and Mastery in book illustration (see note 3)
  October 1945
  210mm high x 160mm wide (the images), 287mm high x 224mm wide (the cover)
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• 0206: 21 lithographs (different images, all from 0205), L’IDIOT, with two paper folders with the title in typography. The prints are on different types of paper, some on folded paper with two prints, some on low quality paper (like test prints)
  October 1945
  210mm high x 160mm wide
• 0207: 7 pen and brush drawings (all different and in print form), L’ÉTRANGE AVENTURE DE PIERRE L’IMAGIER, in a cardboard folder with the title and “Racontée tant bien que mal par Serge Creuz” in typography. The drawings are on loose numbered sheets which are folded in book form and below each is some French text in typography. There are two inside covers each with text. The last sheet has typography which says this was printed on 4th May 1945 at the National High School of Architecture and Decorative Arts of Brussels and is example number three
  May 1945
  120mm high x 140mm wide (the drawings), 335mm high x 260mm wide (the folder and paper)
• 0208: 9 lithographs (all different), THE BASEMENT ROOM, (Graham Green), inside two identical paper covers with the title and a small drawing. All with paper mounts except one. Part of the works which Françoise submitted to Brussels for her Distinction and Mastery in book illustration (see note 3)
  1949
  210mm high x 160mm wide approx (the drawings), 274mm high x 210mm wide approx (the paper)
• 0209: 14 pen and wash drawings (all different), CHEMIN DE CROIX, (Stations of the Cross), in a book of that title with a drawing for each of the fourteen stations. Each drawing has a title and on the opposite page an extract from the Psalms. Two examples were printed at L’Abbaye de La Cambre, the other copy being the property of Joris Minne, at least at the end of 1944
  25th July 1944
  105mm high x 110mm wide approx (the drawings), 280mm high x 230mm wide (the book)
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• 0210: 10 engravings (all different), FLOERE HET FLUWIJN, (Door Ernest Claes, Flemish writer), in a paper folder with the title in typography. The folder contains a title sheet with one of the images (smaller than the others) together with three pages of typography in Flemish and the other nine images – all of animals – with a sheet at the end in typography (Flemish) which gives a print date by E.N.S.A.A.D. in Brussels of 29th February 1945
  29th February 1945
  144mm high x 117mm wide (the images), 250mm high x 180mm wide (the paper)
• 0211: 6 woodcuts (3 different images), ROLLANZ EN RENCESVALS, (possibly French medieval), two identical sets in a paper cover folder with the title in typography and one of the images (smaller than the other two). Each folder contains an inside cover, pages of text (possibly French medieval) with the images inset (pictures of medieval soldiers in helmets) and a sheet at the end in typography (French) which gives a print date by E.N.S.A.A.D. in Brussels of 28th December 1944
  28th December 1944
  110mm high x 78mm wide (the images), 240mm high x 188mm wide (the folders and paper)
• 0212: 1 engraving, NOEL DU XVIe SIÈCLE, two identical folders with paper stuck on the front with the title including “Collection des Poèmes Français”. Each folder contains an inside cover with the title in typography, various pages of text in typography (folded in book form), the image on a folded sheet – a group of five men walking (the same as 0068) – and a sheet at the end in typography which gives the print date by E.N.S.A.A.D. in Brussels as “le jour de la Saint Benoit Fabre”. On one of the end sheets Françoise wrote in pencil “à Ken, Françoise, 8 Fevrier 46”
  1944
  150mm high x 115mm wide (the image), 253mm high x 221mm wide (the folders and paper)
• 0213: 12 engravings (7 different images), HEUREUX LES HUMBLES DE JEAN DE LA VARENDE, in a paper folder with the title and additional text “5 Contes et Nouvelles” (all in typography). The folder contains the engravings (burins?) titled as ‘Heureux les Humbles’ (1), ‘Le Docteur Costard’ (2), ‘La Phoebe’ (1), ‘Les Pelerins d’Argentan’ (2), ‘Monsieur de Politzer’ (3, one stuck on card), ‘Le Pou’ (2), ‘Heureux les Humbles’ (1, smaller image), all on their own single sheets
  10. 1. 45 except the smaller engraving which is January 44
  140mm high x 110mm wide approx (the images), 280mm high x 222mm wide (the folder and paper)
• 0214: 5 engravings (all different), HEUREUX LES HUMBLES DE JEAN DE LA VARENDE, in a paper folder with the title and additional text “5 Contes et Nouvelles” (all in typography). The folder contains two additional empty folders with typography, the five engravings: ‘Le Docteur Costard’, ‘La Phoebe’, ‘Les Pelerins d’Argentan’, ‘Monsieur de Politzer’, ‘Le Pou’, on double-folded sheets containing typography and page numbers. The last page of typography gives the print date by E.N.S.A.A.D. in Brussels as “Le jour de fête des innocents”
  January 1945
  140mm high x 110mm wide approx (the images), 280mm high x 222mm wide (the folders and paper as folded)
• 0215: 33 engravings, BABY WITH STARS, all on double-sized paper, some folded, some not, separated with tissue paper (Christmas Cards)
  No date
  116mm high x 166mm wide
• 0216: 12 engravings, CHRISTMAS TREE with candles and three young children sitting beside it, all on double-sized paper (Christmas Cards)
  No date
  90mm high x 70mm wide
• 0217: 1 engraving, COCAUX GLUGILES, strange creatures with clock face in background
  No date
  242mm high x 194mm wide
• 0218: 1 engraving, JEAN DE NIVELLES, marked in pencil “Jean de Nivelles a trois gros chiens. Les deux premiers sont des vaux riens, le dernier fuit quand on l’appelle”
  No date
  250mm high x 200mm wide
• 0219: 1 etching, FOOTBALLERS tackling ball at Burnden Park, Bolton, clock in background showing 3.35
  No date
  257mm high x 300mm wide
• 0220: 1 engraving, WOMAN WITH CHILD IN MANGER (not a baby) with two animals and two owls overhead
  No date
  300mm high x 258mm wide
• 0221: 1 pen drawing with watercolour, TWO MISERABLE FACES, hand in foreground clutching glove, cobbled street in background, marked on the back with (i) “A moins d’avoir du génie un homme riche ne peut imaginer ce qu’est la pauvreté (Preface De Jean Coste) Peguy 15 Juin 1901” [Charles Pierre Péguy] by Françoise and (ii) ‘L35’ by MAT in blue ink, mounted
  No date
  280mm high x 180mm wide (approx)
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• 0222: 1 pen drawing with black wash, CHRISTMAS, face (probably female) with candles, cornet and elephant in background, marked on the back with ‘L33’ by MAT in blue ink, mounted
  No date
  290mm high x 210mm wide (approx)
• 0223: 1 engraving, CHRISTMAS SHOPPING (Whitaker’s or Whiteheads in Bolton)
  No date, early 1950s
  250mm high x 350mm wide
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• 0224: 1 engraving, BACK STREET, early 1950s Bolton, family in doorway right, lamp post, cat in road, dark sun
  No date, early 1950s
  250mm high x 350mm wide
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• 0225: 1 pen-and-ink drawing, GIRL WITH FLOWERS, on very white thin paper
  No date
  230mm high x 160mm wide approx.
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