William Morris (1834-1936) (after George Frederic Watts) (1913-1920)

Malcolm Osborne

mezzotint on wove paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

William Morris (1834-1936) (after George Frederic Watts) (1913-1920)

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Materials:

Ink, Wove paper

Physical Object Description:

Portrait, almost half-length, of bearded man wearing dark clothes; plant behind.The oil of 1870 on which this print is based is in the National Portrait Gallery, London.See [Harold Sawkins] The Editor, The Artist, April 1933, p.61 ill. Signed on matrix in pencil.

Technique:

Mezzotint

Dimensions:

31.8 x 22.7 cm

Accession Number:

1924,0209.39

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1924

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) with the Prints and Drawings Fund of the Contemporary Art Society, 1920; presented to Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1924

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Portraits

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