Comare Giulia (1925)

Robert Sargent Austin

etching and engraving

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Classification:

Physical Object Description:

Old woman seated with devotional statues and crucifixes; touched proof. 1925 Etching and engraving. Signed on plate and annotated in pencil with initials. Titled and annotated: "2nd state trial" and with working notes.

Technique:

Engraving, Etching

Dimensions:

10.9 x 10.4 cm

Accession Number:

1927,0709.105

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1927

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with the Prints and Drawings Fund, 1925; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1927

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Religion, Woman, Devotional objects

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