Collection Online
Medium
hand-coloured woodcut on brown paper
Measurements
39.7 × 42.9 cm (block) 56.8 × 45.6 cm irreg. (sheet)
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Butler 85
Inscription
incised in block (in image) l.l.: MP.
inscribed in pencil l.l.: Bird of paradise
inscribed in pencil l.r.: Margaret Preston
inscribed in pencil l.c.: 42149
inscribed (diagonally) in pencil l.c.r.: 25 x 22 / 2" sides / 3" top / 5 or 4 1/2 bottom
inscribed (diagonally) in pencil l.r.: narrow (...illeg.) / red frame / del to / Mosman / 97.
Accession Number
1185-4
Departments
Australian Prints / Australian Prints & Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1942
© Margaret Preston/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display