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  • Dick Sheppard and Aldous Huxley

Sir David Low

Dick Sheppard and Aldous Huxley

1938

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Sir David Low 1891–1963
Medium
Graphite, chalk and ink on paper
Dimensions
Support: 419 × 610 mm
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Presented by the artist 1944
Reference
N05464

Catalogue entry

N05464 DICK SHEPPARD AND ALDOUS HUXLEY 1938
 
Inscr. ‘Low’ b.r.
Pencil, chalk and ink, 16 1/2×24 (42×61).
Presented by the artist 1944.

Dick Sheppard and Aldous Huxley were among those who advocated passive resistance in the years preceding the 1914–18 war. Low discusses this attitude, and a similar cartoon of 1936, in his Autobiography, 1956, pp.301–6. N05464 was drawn for a double page illustration to an article by Rebecca West in Nash's Magazine, 1938.

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Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I

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