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Two Women Seated in an Empty Building

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photo: British Museum
Two Women Seated in an Empty Building
photo: British Museum
photo: British Museum

Two Women Seated in an Empty Building

Sketchbook
  • Page 48 from First Shelter Sketchbook
Date1940-41
Artist (British, 1898 - 1986)
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1606
Date Order NumberAG 40-41.48
Mediapencil, wax crayon, coloured crayon, watercolour, wash, pen and ink, gouache
Papercream lightweight wove
Dimensionspaper: 181 x 160 mm
OwnershipThe British Museum, London, bequeathed by Lady Clark
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First Shelter Sketchbook p.48. The dejected woman with her jaunty 1930s hat in this drawing epitomises the desolation of war.

same model as pp 49 + 50 of First Shelter Sketchbook
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