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The seamstress (1934)

William Lionel Clause

black chalk on blue paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

The seamstress (1934)

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license © The Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Black chalk, Blue paper

Physical Object Description:

The seamstress; almost whole-length, female figure, head in profile to left, body turned almost to left, sitting with cushion behind back. 1934 Black chalk, on blue paper. Inscribed and dated: "W.L. Clause/1934".

Dimensions:

24.2 x 31.5 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.10

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1941

Scheme:

Gift

Ownership history:

Gifted by the artist to the Contemporary Art Society, 1940; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1945

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