The Freedom of Epsom (1931)

Edmund Blampied

brown ink, with graphite and coloured pencils

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Graphite, Coloured pencil, Brown ink

Physical Object Description:

"The Freedom of Epsom" (nonsense drawing); an obese Mayor presenting an award to a thin figure in bare feet, wearing robe and spectacles, a band at right, other figures looking on behind. Inscribed with title and inscribed and dated: "Blampied 1931/Nonsense drawing".

Technique:

Brush

Dimensions:

36.9 x 50.6 cm

Accession Number:

1933,0408.131

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1933

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased 1931; presented Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1933

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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