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Artist/Maker
Dorothy Shakespear
(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
Collections
Additional Details
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).
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.
? - 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).
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
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: c. 1930
Medium: Pencil with red ink on watercolor paper
Object number: 2001.4.486.1
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: c. mid-1930's
Medium: Pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.31.36
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: unknown
Medium: Pencil and watercolor on paper
Object number: 2001.4.244.4
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: date unknown
Medium: Pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.473.1
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: 1919
Medium: Pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.74
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: c. 1935
Medium: Pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.31.24
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: c. 1937
Medium: Pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.191
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: 1935
Medium: Pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.31.42