Batten: Apples and Red Admirals Small Boxed Cards
Item In StockItem #: 0169
Ten 3½ x 5 in. blank notecards with envelopes in an acetate-topped box
Published with the British Museum
ISBN 9780764981616
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Batten: Apples and Red Admirals Small Boxed Cards
John Dickson Batten (English, 1860–1932)
Apples and Red Admirals, 1920
John Dickson Batten, born in Plymouth, Devon, was an English painter of figures in oils, tempera and fresco and a book illustrator and printmaker. He studied under the tutelage of the seminal French painter, etcher and sculptor Alphonse Legros. He is sometimes credited with introducing the practice of making colour woodcuts after the Japanese method into England.