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Two Sketches of James Stephens (1880-1950) (1941)

Alfred Hugh Fisher

black chalk on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Black chalk

Physical Object Description:

Portrait studies of James Stephens; two head and shoulder studies, at left turned and looking almost to front, at right turned and looking to right. Inscribed and dated: "A HUGH/FISHER/1941" and inscribed: "James Stephens" and inscribed in another hand: "PLEASE DO NOT RUB THIS DRAWING."

Dimensions:

22.9 x 29.2 cm

Accession Number:

1945,1208.20

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1944

Ownership history:

Purchased by the Contemporary Art Society, 1944; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1944

Subject:

Portraits

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