drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 2018,7065.21
- Description
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Drawing for a book illustration showing a black mother offering a spoonful of liquid to an excited young girl; a smiling boy looks on; behind is a sink, to left, and to right a barred window with a blind half pulled down. 1963
Black Conté crayon and graphite on textured paper
- Production date
- 1963
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 288 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of three illustrations for the same as yet unidentified publication acquired at the same time, see also 2018,7065,22 and 23. A drawing for Chapter 2 of the same publication showing a young black heroin addict being arrested was offered for sale by Worthpoint c.2018.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2018
- Acquisition notes
- One of a group of 25 drawings by Burris Jenkins for newspaper cartoons and book illustrations acquired by Jonathan King in the U.S.A., c.2000.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2018,7065.21