Evacuation of Boucher’s The Rising of the Sun Mini Print Decorations on 330gsm Somerset Enhanced Cotton

on 330gsm Somerset Enhanced Cotton rag paper

Woven tag with Wallace Collection and Grayson Perry mark

from wartime landscapes to Mediterranean seascapes

Inspired by a Sèvres Porcelain Saucer dated 1774 housed in the Wallace Collection's Study

X Large – 61 cm

Evacuation of Boucher’s The Rising of the Sun Mini Print Decorations on 330gsm Somerset Enhanced CottonThis mini print has been produced to celebrate our free display, the Wallace Collection at War, exploring the Artists Aid Russia exhibition hosted in Hertford House in 1942, after the collection had been evacuated for its safety. The emotive black and white archival photograph illustrates the scale of this evacuation, as well as a key moment in the Collection's history, showing the Wallace Collection team removing Boucher's largescale The Rising of