- Artist
- Lord Methuen 1886–1974
- Medium
- Graphite, ink and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 324 × 483 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the artist 1940
- Reference
- N05169
Catalogue entry
N05169 THE TATE GALLERY FROM THE SURREY SIDE 1940
Inscr. ‘Tate Gallery Millbank. 26 June 1940’ b.l. and ‘Methuen’ b.r.
Pencil, pen and watercolour, 12 3/4×19 (32·5×48).
Presented by the artist 1940.
Painted in June 1940 at the suggestion of the Director as a record for the Tate Gallery (see also Schwabe, N05207). In the foreground the emergency war-time bridge is under construction.c
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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