1921 Wood engraving in black on white wove [...]ehurst paper
77 x 77 mm. Purchase: Jonathan Phipps 1981
Number 6 of an edition of 9 proofs. One of five illustrations for chapter headings to 'Cotswold Characters' by John Drinkwater, punlished by Yale University Press, New Haven, 1921. Nine signed and numbered proofs were subsequently issued on wove paper
Eight footballers; foreground, goal posts and a striker scores a goal past a goalkeeper diving to his left; background, players running, two of whom wear shirts with stripes. Engraved mainly in outline with at least two different gravers. Paper has the watermark '[...]ehurst [par?]chment' on an open scroll
