drawing;
postcard
- Museum number
- 1940,0722.18
- Description
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Postcard from Orlik to Robert Austerlitz, written from Vienna; sketches; a man with a moustache wearing a long coat and battered tall hat; behind to left another in a sleek top-hat; to right, a woman in a larger hat with a cane, seen from behind; lower left, a woman with a bustle, seen from behind. 1901
Pen and black ink, graphite and blue crayon
- Production date
- 1901
- Dimensions
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Height: 140 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 89 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a collection of humorous sketches on letters and postcards addressed to Paula and Robert Austerlitz in Edlach in Lower Austria, 1896-1926, bound into a volume and donated by Campbell Dodgson in 1940.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1940
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1940,0722.18
