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Description: Arched rectangle; ovol-moulded edging; pictorial scene of a begowned figure waving to figures standing beneath a portico with a sun behind, other figures opening a door to his left, above which is the shape of the man in the moon; blottom left, a computer; bottom right, a painter's palette.
Notes: A farewell gift to William Vaughan, Reader in Art History at University College, London (later professor of the History of Art at Birkbeck College).
Inscription: WILLIAM VAUGHAN / 1972 UNIVERSITY 1986 / COLLEGE
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- architectural
- text
- humans
Manufactured: in 1987 in England.
Current location: Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, Greater London, England.
Museum number: M.15-1994 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Personal firebacks
