Colour woodcut, etched linocut, brown, black, pink, red, and orange ink on filter paper 87.8 x 50 centimetres Edition of 35 proofs numbered and signed Rothenstein has here used plywood as a horizontal grain supporting weathered wood with an upstanding grain, taken from the side of a shed. This sequence of time, which had to be dried out, brushed with wire brushes and all the rest of it, surrounds an archway of etched colour and freely cut lino insets that mark interior space. The beautiful thing was that I could keep unity, the truth of that fragment of wood by printing one side of the block on the left and one block on the right the back of the block, so altogether there is the unity of a mirror image.(1) Rothenstein also made a collage of White Gothic in 1963. Red and Dark Blue 1963 Colour Woodcut, linocut, red, dark and light brown, dark blue, and grey ink on Japan paper. 81.6 x 58 centimetres Edition of 35 not all printed proofs, numbered and signed The open block print provided Rothenstein with great freedom, in this case an old arched piece of plankwood as graph of time for the metaphor of land and a lino and plywood elements above. Inset Blue 1962 Colour woodcut, linocut, grey, dark brown, black, pale blue ink. 46 x 77.2 centimetres Edition of 30 proofs not all signed and numbered Plywood printed in cool grey, off-registered, with two fragments of wood printed in brown on top with separate line blocks and pale blue insets. Proofs are numbered with alphabet letters. 1. Michael Rothenstein, The Prints of Michael Rothenstein, Tessa Sidey, Scolar Press, London 1993