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ARP (Air Raid Precaution) worker asleep (1941)

George Winston Hooper

black chalk, with pen and brown ink and graphite

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

ARP (Air Raid Precaution) worker asleep (1941)

Photo credit: The Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Black chalk, Pen and brown ink, Graphite

Physical Object Description:

Three-quarter portrait of sleeping workman. Black chalk, with pen and brown ink and graphite, 1941. Inscribed and dated: "G W Hooper 1941".

Dimensions:

28.8 x 39.4 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.36

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1945

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by the Contemporary Art Society, 1941; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1945

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

World War Two

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George Winston Hooper
ARP (Air Raid Precaution) worker asleep (1941)

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