Description (Physical description)
Four etching and chine collé of Dugong Hunting Charm, made by Rebecca Jewell, c. 2009. Print .1 includes an image found in an old book shop, of the interior of the Egyptian Gallery of the British Museum. Print .2 includes a photo taken by Alfred Cort Haddon, of 'Niath', a tall wooden dugong fishing platform. The photo currently is at British Museum (no. Oc,B40.11).
Event Date 24/10/2024
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Other owners)
Rebecca is a print-maker and collage artist. She divides her time between London and Fen Ditton, near Cambridge. Drawing is at the centre of her practice and her intricate depictions of plants, artefacts and nature specimens, and her unique feather collages, are inspired both by material culture and natural history collections in museums as well as issues around biodiversity and conservation.

Using a technique she has perfected for printing images onto feathers, Rebecca collages these feathers into assemblages representing headdresses and capes and other ‘artefacts.’

Rebecca has a PhD from the Royal College of Art (2004) and is a faculty member of the Royal Drawing School. She has been Artist in Residence at the British Museum and the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally.

Rebecca’s work is held in the British Museum, the Natural History Museum, the British Library, the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the National Maritime Museum, as well as in many private collections.
Artist's bio from https://www.rebeccajewell.com/ accessed 30/04/2024
Event Date 30/4/2024
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu