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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) (1929)

Joseph Simpson

etching

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Print

Physical Object Description:

Portrait of bearded head only, almost in profile to left. 1929 Etching, printed in brownish ink. Signed and annotated: "First Proof".

Technique:

Etching

Dimensions:

30.1 x 21.4 cm

Accession Number:

1941,0208.92

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1941

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, 1941

Subject:

Portraits

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