Tête (1929)

Emile Charles Carlègle

colour woodcut, printed in orange-brown, on thin laid oriental paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Photo credit: The Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Materials:

Oriental paper

Physical Object Description:

Head of young woman in profile to right, with short cropped hair and earring. Colour woodcut, printed in orange-brown, on thin laid oriental paper. Signed and numbered 3/25.

Technique:

Woodcut

Dimensions:

12 x 10.5 cm

Accession Number:

1932,0514.81

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1932

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1929; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1932

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Portraits

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