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The Prior of Caldey, the Very Rev. Wilfrid Upson, OSB (1880-1963) (1926)

Eric Rowton Gill

engraving

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

The Prior of Caldey, the Very Rev. Wilfrid Upson, OSB (1880-1963) (1926)

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Print

Physical Object Description:

Portrait head, left profile, wearing cassock and thin tonsure. 1926 Engraving, with plate-tone. Signed with initials in reverse on plate. Signed by both artist and sitter.

Technique:

Engraving

Dimensions:

24.9 x 17.4 cm

Accession Number:

1930,0111.84

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1930

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1926-30; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1930

Subject:

Portraits, Monk

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