The Connemara Peasant (1921)

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst

etching on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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Classification:

Materials:

Ink, Paper

Physical Object Description:

Masculine Irish fish-wife, wearing headscarf; head and shoulders.Same figure as in Wright 10. Etched from a drawing in the BM (1924,0209.1 kept British Imp VIIIb). Signed on plate (in reverse). Signed, titled and annotated: "1 state".

Technique:

Etching

Dimensions:

16.3 x 11.2 cm

Accession Number:

1924,0209.14

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1924

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by the Contemporary Art Society, 1921; presented to Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1924

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

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