{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O153526"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O153526/"}},"images":null,"see_also":null},"record":{"systemNumber":"O153526","accessionNumber":"CIRC.87-1974","objectType":"Drawing","titles":[{"title":"Crate","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"Williams is a well known British sculptor. This drawing is one of a group acquired by the museum in 1974, as studies for prints. The images suggest Williams' then interest in spatial illusion, created by reflection, which also appears in his sculpture of the time. The work has a witty edge and the surrealist imagery of Magritte, and the work of  M.C.Escher, whose impossible and fantastical constructions play on quirks of perception, may also have been an influence at this time.","physicalDescription":"A mirror, diagonal to the picture plane, divides the space of the image in two. In the foreground, is a wooden crate. It's reflection in the mirror is not quite as one might expect it to be: it not only reveals the crate to be merely a façade, but the lid, and right side of the crate, seen in the 'real' crate, are missing in  the reflection.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Williams, Glynn","id":"A21618"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"},{"text":"pencil","id":"x30347"},{"text":"felt tip pen","id":"x32044"},{"text":"pen and ink","id":"x30618"},{"text":"ink","id":"AAT15012"}],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing","id":"x32498"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Ink and felt tip pen over pencil on paper","categories":[{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLD","id":"THES49658"},"free":"","case":"DR","shelf":"14","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawing","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"UK","id":"x29336"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1971","earliest":"1971-01-01","latest":"1971-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"58.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sheet","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"83.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"sheet","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Glynn Williams /71","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"inscribed in pencil with signature and date"}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Drawing, Glynn Williams: Drawing: 'Crate' 1971","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1974 "}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"mirror","id":"AAT37682"},{"text":"crate","id":"AAT194527"}],"contentConcepts":[{"text":"reflection","id":"AAT179488"}],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["CIRC.87-1974"],"accessionNumberNum":"87","accessionNumberPrefix":"CIRC","accessionYear":1974,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2008-04-25","availableToBook":false}}