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Blair Hughes-Stanton

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Blair Rowlands Hughes-Stanton (22 February 1902 – 6 June 1981) was a major figure in the English wood engraving revival in the twentieth century. [1]

75 relations: Agnes Miller Parker, Anthony Trollope, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Biblical apocrypha, Birds, Beasts and Flowers, Book of Lamentations, Book of Revelation, British Council, Byam Shaw School of Art, Central School of Art and Design, Charles Dickens, Christopher Marlowe, Christopher Sandford, Clare Leighton, Colchester, Comus (Milton), Cresset Press, D. H. Lawrence, Ecclesiastes, England, Erewhon, Eric Kennington, Eric Newton, Folio Society, Frances Spalding, Gertrude Hermes, Golden Cockerel Press, Gregynog Press, Gwendoline Davies, Henry James, Herbert Hughes-Stanton, Higham, Babergh, HMS Conway, Imperial War Museum, Jack Lindsay, Jane Austen, John Bunyan, John Milton, John of Patmos, Joseph Conrad, Kenneth Clark, Kensington, Leon Underwood, Linocut, London, Margaret Davies, Middle East, Oil painting, Prisoner of war, Private Libraries Association, ..., River Stour, Suffolk, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Engineers, Royal Navy, Samuel Butler (novelist), Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Simon Gantillon, Society of Wood Engravers, T. E. Lawrence, Thames & Hudson, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Studio (magazine), Thomas De Quincey, Training ship, Venice Biennale, W. H. Davies, W. J. Gruffydd (Elerydd), Walter de la Mare, War Artists' Advisory Committee, Westminster School of Art, Whitechapel Gallery, Wilkie Collins, William McCance, Wood engraving, World War II. Expand index (25 more) »

Agnes Miller Parker

Agnes Miller Parker (1895–1980) was an engraver and illustrator.

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Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era.

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Arthur Calder-Marshall

Arthur Calder-Marshall (19 August 1908 – 17 April 1992) was an English novelist, essayist, critic, memoirist and biographer.

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Biblical apocrypha

The Biblical apocrypha (from the Greek ἀπόκρυφος, apókruphos, meaning "hidden") denotes the collection of apocryphal ancient books found in some editions of Christian Bibles in a separate section between the Old and New Testaments or as an appendix after the New Testament.

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Birds, Beasts and Flowers

Birds, Beasts and Flowers is a collection of poetry by the English author D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1923.

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Book of Lamentations

The Book of Lamentations (אֵיכָה, ‘Êykhôh, from its incipit meaning "how") is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem.

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Book of Revelation

The Book of Revelation, often called the Revelation to John, the Apocalypse of John, The Revelation, or simply Revelation or Apocalypse (and often misquoted as Revelations), is a book of the New Testament that occupies a central place in Christian eschatology.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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Byam Shaw School of Art

The Byam Shaw School of Art, often known simply as Byam Shaw, was an independent art school in London, England, which specialised in fine art and offered foundation and degree level courses.

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Central School of Art and Design

The Central School of Art and Design was a public school of fine and applied arts in London, England.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era.

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Christopher Sandford

Christopher Sandford (1902-1983) of Eye Manor, Herefordshire, was a book designer, proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press, a founding director of the Folio Society, and husband of the wood engraver and pioneer Corn dolly revivalist, Lettice Sandford, née Mackintosh Rate.

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Clare Leighton

Clara Ellaline Hope Leighton (sometimes Clare Veronica Hope Leighton) (12 April 1898 – 4 November 1989) was an English/American artist, writer and illustrator, best known for her wood engravings.

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Colchester

Colchester is an historic market town and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester in the county of Essex.

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Comus (Milton)

Comus (A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) is a masque in honour of chastity, written by John Milton.

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Cresset Press

The Cresset Press was a publishing company in London, England, active as an independent press from 1927 for 40 years, and initially specializing in "expensively illustrated limited editions of classical works, like Milton's Paradise Lost" going on to produce well-designed trade editions of literary and political works.

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D. H. Lawrence

Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lev Shestov, Walt Whitman | influenced.

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Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes (Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστής, Ekklēsiastēs, קֹהֶלֶת, qōheleṯ) is one of 24 books of the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible, where it is classified as one of the Ketuvim (or "Writings").

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Erewhon

Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler which was first published anonymously in 1872.

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Eric Kennington

Eric Henri Kennington (12 March 1888 – 13 April 1960) was an English sculptor, artist and illustrator, and an official war artist in both World Wars.

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Eric Newton

Eric Newton is an American journalist, Innovation Chief at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a consultant for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, an organization created by one of the founding families behind the Knight Ridder newspaper group.

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Folio Society

The Folio Society is a privately owned London-based publisher, founded by Charles Ede in 1947 and incorporated in 1971.

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Frances Spalding

Frances Spalding CBE, FRSL (née Crabtree, born 16 July 1950) is a British art historian and writer and the former Editor of The Burlington Magazine.

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Gertrude Hermes

Gertrude Anna Bertha Hermes (18 August 1901 – 9 May 1983) was an English wood engraver, printmaker and sculptor.

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Golden Cockerel Press

The Golden Cockerel Press was a major English fine press operating between 1920 and 1961.

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Gregynog Press

The Gregynog Press, also known as Gwasg Gregynog, is a printing press and charity located at Gregynog Hall near Newtown in Powys, Wales.

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Gwendoline Davies

Gwendoline Elizabeth Davies, CH (11 February 1882 – 3 July 1951), was a Welsh philanthropist and patron of the arts who, together with her sister Margaret, is recognised as the most influential collector of Impressionist and 20th-century art in Wales.

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Henry James

Henry James, OM (–) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

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Herbert Hughes-Stanton

Sir Herbert Edwin Pelham Hughes-Stanton (21 November 1870 – 2 August 1937) was a British watercolour and oil painter, predominantly of landscapes.

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Higham, Babergh

Higham is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England.

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HMS Conway

Four ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Conway after the town of Conwy in Wales, formerly known by its English name of Conway.

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Imperial War Museum

Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London.

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Jack Lindsay

Jack Lindsay (20 October 1900 – 8 March 1990) was an Australian-born writer, who from 1926 lived in the United Kingdom, initially in Essex.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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John Bunyan

John Bunyan (baptised November 30, 1628August 31, 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress.

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John Milton

John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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John of Patmos

John of Patmos (also called John the Revelator, John the Divine or John the Theologian; Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Θεολόγος, ⲓⲱⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ) are the suffixative descriptions given to the author named as John in the Book of Revelation, the apocalyptic text forming the final book of the New Testament.

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.

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Kenneth Clark

Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983) was a British art historian, museum director, and broadcaster.

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Kensington

Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, West London, England.

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Leon Underwood

Leon Underwood (born 25 December 1890 in Shepherds Bush,Neve & Rothenstein, 1974, pages 1–5 London, died 9 October 1975) "The precursor of modern sculpture in Britain" was a noted British sculptor, painter, draughtsman and engraver as well as a writer and illustrator, scholar, teacher, philosopher and stained glass and furniture craftsman.

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Linocut

Linocut is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for a relief surface.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Margaret Davies

Margaret Sidney Davies (14 December 1884 – 13 March 1963), was a Welsh art collector and patron of the arts.

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Middle East

The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).

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Oil painting

Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Private Libraries Association

The Private Libraries Association (PLA) came into being in 1956 when 18-year-old Philip Ward wrote a letter to the Observer inviting booklovers and book collectors to attend a meeting to discuss the setting up of an association whose aims would be:-.

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River Stour, Suffolk

The River Stour is a river in East Anglia, England.

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Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London.

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Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Samuel Butler (novelist)

Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was the iconoclastic English author of the Utopian satirical novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903.

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British soldier T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918.

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Simon Gantillon

Simon Gantillon (7 January 1887, Lyon –– 9 September 1961, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a 20th-century French screenwriter and playwright.

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Society of Wood Engravers

The Society of Wood Engravers was founded in 1920 by the artists Noel Rooke and Robert Gibbings, who were the driving force behind the society, and Edward Gordon Craig, E.M.O'R. Dickey, Eric Gill, Philip Hagreen, Sydney Lee, John Nash, Lucien Pissarro, and Gwen Raverat.

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T. E. Lawrence

Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer.

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Thames & Hudson

Thames & Hudson (also Thames and Hudson and sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books on art, architecture, design, and visual culture.

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The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan.

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The Studio (magazine)

The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art was an illustrated fine arts and decorative arts magazine published in London from 1893 until 1964.

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Thomas De Quincey

Thomas Penson De Quincey (15 August 17858 December 1859) was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).

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Training ship

A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors.

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Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia; in English also called the "Venice Biennial") refers to an arts organization based in Venice and the name of the original and principal biennial exhibition the organization organizes.

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W. H. Davies

William Henry Davies or W. H. Davies (3 July 1871 – 26 September 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer.

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W. J. Gruffydd (Elerydd)

William John Gruffydd (1916 – 21 April 2011), better known by his bardic name of Elerydd, was a Welsh Baptist minister and poet who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales between 1984 and 1987.

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Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare (25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was a British poet, short story writer and novelist.

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War Artists' Advisory Committee

The War Artists Advisory Committee (WAAC), was a British government agency established within the Ministry of Information at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, with the aim of compiling a comprehensive artistic and documentary of the history of Britain throughout the war.

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Westminster School of Art

The Westminster School of Art was an art school in Westminster, London.

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Whitechapel Gallery

The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery in Whitechapel on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the East End of London and Central London.

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Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

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William McCance

William McCance (1894–1970) was a Scottish artist, and was second Controller of the Gregynog Press in Powys, mid-Wales.

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Wood engraving

Wood engraving --> is a printmaking and letterpress printing technique, in which an artist works an image or matrix of images into a block of wood.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair_Hughes-Stanton

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