drawing
- Museum number
- 1948,0710.8
- Description
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Joseph in a chariot; dancing figures leading the horse-drawn chariot, figures in the foreground bowing down before them. 1914
Brush drawing in grey wash
- Production date
- 1914
- Dimensions
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Height: 121 millimetres
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Width: 180 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is number 75 of a series of 131 biblical drawings made by Marius Bauer in 1914. [Information from Ronald Frings of the Bauer Documentation Foundation]
This drawing was exhibited in London at the Dowdeswell Galleries in January/February 1916 under number 44.
Literature: M. Bauer, in The Studio 276 (15 March 1916), p.124; T. Martin Wood, in The Studio 277 (15 April 1916), pp.151-154.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- 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
- 1948,0710.8
