Ex-Scotland, personal art Christmas card with the mole with quill pen, and Uffington horse by Brian Hope-Taylor. Brian Hope-Taylor (1923-2001) was an archaeologist and artist who was especially noted ...

Description Ex-Scotland, personal art Christmas card with the mole with quill pen, and Uffington horse by Brian Hope-Taylor. Brian Hope-Taylor (1923-2001) was an archaeologist and artist who was especially noted for his work on Anglo-Saxon and early medieval sites in Scotland and England. He also taught in the archaeology department at the University of Cambridge during the 1960s and 1970s. Always keen to promote public interest in archaeology, Hope-Taylor had a successful television career as a broadcaster.

Date c. 1950

Collection Papers of Brian Hope-Taylor, archaeologist, Cambridge, England

Catalogue Number DC 43639

Category Print Room

Copies SC 765217

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.

Medium Print

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