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Design

c. 1850-5 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A pen and ink note for a seated nude figure suported by the right arm and leaning forward with the left arm raised holding drapery. The paper is torn across the top, right, and bottom margins, and has a pen mark 3 (encircled) at the top left.


Object details

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Materials and techniques
Brief description
Design by Alfred Stevens, a pen and ink note for a seated nude figure supported by the right arm and leaning forward with the left arm raised holding drapery, pen and ink, c. 1850-5.
Physical description
A pen and ink note for a seated nude figure suported by the right arm and leaning forward with the left arm raised holding drapery. The paper is torn across the top, right, and bottom margins, and has a pen mark 3 (encircled) at the top left.
Dimensions
  • Height: 11.4cm
  • Width: 6.7cm
Dimensions taken from Romney Towndrow, Kenneth, The Works of Alfred Stevens at the Tate Gallery. London: Published by the Tate Gallery Trustees, 1950.
Credit line
Gifted from the Tate Gallery, date of receipt 11th October 1974. Gift refers to objects E.21 to 380-1975.
Object history
This is probably a design for silverware and to be dated to the early fifties when Stevens designed for both Messrs. Potts of Birmingham and Bradbury of Sheffield.
Bibliographic reference
Romney Towndrow, Kenneth. The Works of Alfred Stevens at the Tate Gallery. London: Published by the Tate Gallery Trustees, 1950.
Other number
N.G. No. 5820 - National Gallery number
Collection
Accession number
E.369-1975

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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