Signed in pencil u.l.: CLAUDE FLIGHT

Linocut printed in cobalt blue, yellow ochre, vermilion and Prussian blue, 1922, on buff oriental laid paper, with margins 22.6 cm by 28.8cm (9 in by 11 1/4 ins)

Literature Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age, Scholar Press, London, 1995, p74

Flight’s linocut Speed is arguably one of the most significant British prints of the early twentieth century, assimilating some of the influence of the Vorticists in the previous decade into a style that would pave the way for the linocuts of the Grosvenor School in the same decade. The present work was used as the frontispiece to Flight's first linocut textbook, Lino-cuts: A Hand-book of Linoleum-cut Colour Printing (1927). This print was impressed on the reverse of the sheet, the colours showing through the fine translucent paper.