Not on display
- Artist
- James Havard Thomas 1854–1921
- Medium
- Chalk and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 549 x 813 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1922
- Reference
- N03640
Catalogue entry
N03640 IRRIGATORS, SOUTHERN ITALY c.
1899–1906
Inscr. ‘Rebecca’ (?) b.r. and indecipherably b.c.
Red chalk and pencil, 21 5/8×30 3/4 (55×78), enlarged by a strip 1 to 1 1/4 (2·5 to 3) wide on right.
Purchased from the Leicester Galleries (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1922.
Exh: Carfax & Co., November 1909 (43), as ‘The Irrigators’; Society of Twelve, 1915 (23, repr.), as ‘Irrigators, Southern Italy’; Leicester Galleries, April–May 1922 (67).
Probably a preparatory drawing for a bas-relief although this does not appear ever to have been carried out.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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