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Long-nosed soldier with a broom crest

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Ground Cream

Ink Black

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130mm Rustic Handmade Glazed Ceramic Tile Plain white £17.99

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Size
130 × 130mm
Material
Glazed ceramic, handmade
Suitable for
Indoors only
Plain
The matching plain white
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Long-nosed soldier with a broom crest

Design no. 223570

Strange, comic figures from Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel, a Paris picture book of 1565.

Design no.
223570
Department
Archival & Collage
Collection
The Drolatic Dreams
Source
Anonymous, Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (Paris, 1565)
Illustrator
Anonymous; some cuts copied after Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Technique
Woodcut
Style
1565 grotesques: open line, light hatching, strong silhouette
Subject
Figures, Monsters & marvels
Colour
Black on cream as standard
Form
Single tile
Mood
Playful
Symmetry
Asymmetric
Complexity
Medium

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Long-nosed soldier with a broom crest