Ex-Scotland Copy of a Christmas card by Brian Hope-Taylor. Digital image only.
SC 765217
Description Ex-Scotland Copy of a Christmas card by Brian Hope-Taylor. Digital image only.
Collection Papers of Brian Hope-Taylor, archaeologist, Cambridge, England
Catalogue Number SC 765217
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 43639
Scope and Content Christmas card designed by Brian Hope-Taylor Brian Hope-Taylor designed his own cards for special occasions. In this Christmas card we can see a mole with a quill pen mounted on the Uffington White Horse with a dragon below. This design was also used in a book of essays dedicated to Stuart Piggott, another distinguished archaeologist. As a child he had a very successful acting and modelling career and he later studied wood-engraving with George Mackley. The image on this card is a wood engraving. He is remembered as being 'gifted in so many ways'and as having an 'impact on a whole generation'. Brian Hope-Taylor (1923-2001) was a remarkable archaeologist who did much to raise the standards of excavation and archaeological illustration in Britain. He pioneered excavation techniques on timber building and was especially noted for his work on Anglo-Saxon and early medieval sites in Scotland and England. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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