Clare Leighton, January: Lambing, Prints by Bookroom Art Press

Description:

Wood Engraving (1933). Original size 20.3 x 26.5cm. This is the first amongst a series of twelve prints (from which we have published six) each corresponding to one month in the year. The images chart the everyday practices of English country life through the seasons, and were initially accompanied by short narratives written by Leighton herself. The images are derived from different counties throughout southern England, but are presented as part of a wider, even timeless structure: the cycles of rural labour as inevitable as the passing of the seasons themselves.