Evacuation of Boucher’s The Rising of the Sun Mini Print Decorations Suzanne Higgott

Suzanne Higgott

Inspired by a Sèvres Porcelain Saucer dated 1774 housed in the Wallace Collection's Study

on 330gsm Somerset Enhanced Cotton rag paper

Dimensions         310 x 220 mm (portrait)

Evacuation of Boucher’s The Rising of the Sun Mini Print Decorations Suzanne HiggottThis mini print has been produced to celebrate our free display, the Wallace Collection at War, exploring the Artists Aid Russia exhibition hosted in Hertford House in 1942, after the collection had been evacuated for its safety. The emotive black and white archival photograph illustrates the scale of this evacuation, as well as a key moment in the Collection's history, showing the Wallace Collection team removing Boucher's largescale The Rising of