The Resting Place (Scutari) - after Brangwyn

Yoshijiro Urushibara

This color woodcut was plate 3 and was included in a portfolio titled 'Ten Woodcuts by Yoshijiro Urushibara' done in 1924 and published by John Lane in London in 1924. The portfolio included an introduction by Laurence Binyon. The woodcuts were cut and printed by Urushibara after watercolors by his friend and collaborator, British artist Frank Brangwyn. Urushibara hand printed an edition of 250 plus 20 artist's proofs that were not offered for sale. He used different Japanes papers and signed 7 of the images with pencil, in the European tradition and the other 3 with his seal signature in red ink.

'"The Resting Place, Scutari"' depicts a Crimean cemetery in Scultari (now Üsküdar), Turkey, that covers eight acres and houses a memorial built to honor the British Crimean war dead. The memorial was supervised by W.H. Lyne of the Royal Engineers. The cemetary contains the burial places for seventeen British and Indian prisoners of war. Brangwyn did an etching of the cemetery in 1904 (Gaunt 31).