Cuckoo
Allen W. Seaby
1915
- Medium
- Color woodcut
- Dimensions
- 8 11/16 × 13 5/16 in. (22.07 × 33.81 cm) (image) 9 3/4 × 14 3/16 in. (24.77 × 36.04 cm) (sheet)
- Genre
Tags
England
About
If Allen Seaby’s cuckoo has a slight feel of a scientific specimen, that’s because it was modeled after a painting he did for The British Bird Book (1910–13), a survey of bird behavior. He depicted his subject making its “cuckoo” sound, which, as the text explains, is “uttered with the bill closed, or almost so.”
