Randolph Schwabe

High Street, Hampstead

1928

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Artist: Randolph Schwabe 1885–1948
Medium: Ink and watercolour on paper
Dimensions: Support: 340 × 337 mm
frame: 604 × 511 × 17 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1929
Reference: N04481

Catalogue entry

N04481 HIGH STREET, HAMPSTEAD 1928

Inscr. ‘R Schwabe 1928’ b.r.
Pen and wash, 13 3/8×13 1/4 (34×33·5), on back of a nautical map showing the coastline from the Straits of Johore to Ridang Island.
Purchased from the Imperial Gallery of Art (Grant-in-Aid) 1929.
Exh: Paintings, Drawings, Engravings and Small Sculpture by Artists resident in Great Britain and the Dominions, Imperial Gallery of Art, Imperial Institute, April–June 1929 (78); Arts Council, London and tour, January–July 1951 (33).

A view of the south-west side of Hampstead High Street, looking through the arch leading into Perrins Court. Skoyles, the ironmongers and electricians, and Forsters, the grocers, were still occupying the same premises in 1963.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II