Beggar's Opera (Illustration to Henry de Montherlant's 'Les Jeunes Filles') (1936)

Mariette Ronsberger Lydis

colour lithograph, on Japan paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Beggar's Opera (Illustration to Henry de Montherlant's 'Les Jeunes Filles') (1936)

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Print, Book Illustration

Materials:

Japan paper

Physical Object Description:

Faces of four figures looking to right, bottles and cards lower right, illustration to Henry de Montherlant's 'Les Jeunes Filles'. 1938 Colour lithograph, on Japan paper. Signed, titled and annotated: "Paris" and "handcoloured lithograph".

Technique:

Lithograph

Dimensions:

26.1 x 17.4 cm

Accession Number:

1936,0613.128.+

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1936

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, 1936; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1936

Relationship:

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

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Mariette Ronsberger Lydis

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