Customs Port, Palermo (1936)

Wilfred Fairclough

pen and black and blue ink, with blue wash

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Pen and black ink, Pen and blue ink, Blue wash

Physical Object Description:

Customs Port, Palermo; horse and donkey-drawn carts on quay, with sailing boats moored alongside, at left foreground figures standing near a hut, and in background opposite shoreline and buildings, and boats moored alongside. 1936 Pen and black and blue ink, Signed and dated: "W. Fairclough/1936" and inscribed with title and numbers with blue wash

Dimensions:

33.9 x 30.4 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.18

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1939

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by the Contemporary Art Society, 1939; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, 1939

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Ports

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