drawing
- Museum number
- 2014,7075.2
- Description
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A caricature of profiles of two heads within a circle, with part of the artist's name written along the left edge of the drawing, mounted onto card
Verso: a large nude woman seen from behind, holding a rifle with a bayonet
Pen and ink
- Production date
- 1836-1919
- Dimensions
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Height: 129 millimetres
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Width: 68 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This curious group of caricatures (2014,7075.1-3) came into the collection with an attribution to Poynter because of the inscription on one of them, but he is not known to have produced this type of drawing. When they were taken off their mount, the verso of one was an envelope addressed to Philip Burne-Jones and another had a drawing of one of Edward Burne-Jones’s very distinctive ‘fat ladies’ – the term he used to describe his comical figures drawn for his own and his friends’ amusement. Their attribution remains a mystery, for now, but they have been place with Burne-Jones's drawings for convenience.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2018-2019, Oct 4 – 27 Jan, London, BM G90, New Acquisitions: Gozzoli to Kara Walker
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- 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
- 2014,7075.2
