The Sick Child (1924)

Georg Ehrlich

brown and pink chalk

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Brown chalk, Pink chalk

Physical Object Description:

The sick child; half-length with covers up to waist and hands resting on top, head turned to right, a separate hand study below. 1924 Brown and pink chalk. Signed and dated and inscribed: "Binnengasthuis Amsterdam".

Dimensions:

47.6 x 31.4 cm

Accession Number:

1939,0730.15

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1939

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by A. M. Hind (1880-1957) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1938; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1939

Relationship:

Arthur Mayger 'A. M.' Hind Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Child

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