The Captive (1898-1926)

Edward Frank Gillett

drypoint on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Physical Object Description:

A naked girl sitting on the back of a centaur, holding up one hand, the other in the sling of a rope attached to the centaur' wrists; another centaur holding the reins at left, a third seen behind and a fourth at right. Drypoint. Signed below image at right: 'Frank Gillett' and inscribed with the title at lower left corner of sheet.

Technique:

Drypoint

Dimensions:

35 x 27.4 cm

Accession Number:

1926,0313.35

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1926

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, 1919-26; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1926

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Greek and Roman mythology

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Edward Frank Gillett

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