Mon portrait (1926)

Jules de Bruycker

etching and drypoint, with surface tone

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Photo credit: The Trustees of the British Museum

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Physical Object Description:

Self-portrait at his desk, half-length facing front, wearing glasses and holding cigarette with his left hand; small statue, jar and porcelain plate on the chimney-piece behind, fragment of framed townscape in the background. Etching and drypoint, with surface tone.Signed in pencil below image. Annotated with title and numbered: "72/125". Inscribed on plate: "Biblioteek van Hooge geleerdheio / [...]be [...]ieakette" (?).

Technique:

Etching, Drypoint

Dimensions:

40 x 29.7 cm

Accession Number:

1930,0111.19

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1930

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1919-30; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1930

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Self Portrait

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Jules de Bruycker

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