Chinese characters: person/people, woman, enter, soldier/bachelor/scholar, big, corpse, long stride, step with left foot, dagger-axe, dog, old, blunt/tough, behavior, red, body, food, and clothes

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Chinese characters: person/people, woman, enter, soldier/bachelor/scholar, big, corpse, long stride, step with left foot, dagger-axe, dog, old, blunt/tough, behavior, red, body, food, and clothes
Chinese characters: person/people, woman, enter, soldier/bachelor/scholar, big, corpse, long stride, step with left foot, dagger-axe, dog, old, blunt/tough, behavior, red, body, food, and clothes
Artist/Maker (British, 1886 – 1973)
Datedate unknown
MediumPencil on tracing paper
DimensionsSheet: 14 5/8 × 3 1/2 in. (37.1 × 8.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951
Object number2001.4.503.29
Not on view

Additional Details

Provenance 2001: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Omar S. Pound;
by 1973 - 2001: Omar S. Pound, by gift or inheritance from Dorothy Shakespear.
Markings No markings noted.
Signature Not signed.
Inscribed No inscriptions noted.
Chinese characters: to stop, right/proper, to go back, and up
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: date unknown
Medium: Pencil on tracing paper
Object number: 2001.4.503.20
Chinese characters: "The man expends his wealth to expand himself"
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: date unknown
Medium: Pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.503.31
[Chinese Calligraphy Sketches]
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: date unknown
Medium: Pencil on tracing paper
Object number: 2001.4.503.28
Chinese character: enemy (verso)
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: date unknown
Medium: Pencil and green crayon on paper
Object number: 2001.4.503.30
Food Conservation Exhibition in the Takoma Park Library, Washington, D.C.
Date: 1915-1919
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: INV.185
Mr. Chow Chung-Yuch, Chinese Scholar from Yunan Province from the "Chinese Album"
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944, published 1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1983.114
Hanging Clothes
John Sloan
Date: 1912
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1992.3
Napoleon / 'Dead Men’s Clothes Soon Wear Out', from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published September 10, 1870
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.120
Character of the Chinese theater (portrait of Swen Fu-juin) from the "Chinese Album"
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944, published 1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1983.115
Francis King, Boy Scout
Clinedinst Studio
Date: 1915-1919
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: INV.189
Don Freeman
Date: June 1937
Medium: Volume of fifteen bound lithographs
Object number: 2008.2.10
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by J…
J. S. G. Boggs
Date: 1987
Medium: Dollar bill with ink
Object number: 2017.13.1