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Pyrenees
Pyrenees
Artist/Maker (British, 1886 – 1973)
DateOctober 1919
MediumInk and pencil on paper
DimensionsComposition: 3 1/2 × 7 3/4 in. (8.9 × 19.7 cm) Sheet: 6 1/2 × 10 in. (16.5 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951
Object number1994.93
Not on view

Additional Details

Alternate Titles Pyrenees graphic art
Exhibition History 1992
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Rebels & Romantics: Some British Moderns and Their Work," June 6 - September 6, 1992 (cat. no. 45, illus., 60).
Provenance 1994: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Omar S. Pound;
? - 1994: Omar S. Pound, by gift or inheritance from Dorothy Shakespear.
Markings Label: white rectangular adhesive label with "DOROTHY / SHAKESPEAR / POUND / b. 1886; raised seal/stamp on side at lower right: 5, HOLLAND PLACE CHAMBERS, / KENSINGTON .W." in black typeset on verso.
Published References David Lewis, ed., REBELS & ROMANTICS: SOME BRITISH MODERNS AND THEIR WORK (exh. cat. Clinton, NY: Fred L. Emerson Gallery, 1992): Cathy Toney "Dorothy Shakespear," 43, [checklist] 65, illus., 60.

Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, "Acquisitions 1994," FRIENDS OF ART NEWSLETTER (August 1995).
Signature Initialed "DS" at lower right in pencil.
Inscribed Entitled and dated in pencil along bottom of sheet: design for a woodcut - Pyrenees - Oct - 1919.; inscribed in pencil on verso at upper center right [sideways]: about 12" x 16 / [illegible] / measurements / light grey mount / metallic frame?; in pencil on verso at lower left: #6
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