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Edgar Wallace

Drawing
1932 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Portrait of Edgar Wallace. Half length, facing half right, seated, reading, and smoking a cigarette in a holder.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleEdgar Wallace (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Chinese ink on tracing paper
Brief description
Drawing of the novelist and playwright Edgar Wallace, Chinese ink on tracing paper, by Edmond Xavier Kapp, 1932.
Physical description
Portrait of Edgar Wallace. Half length, facing half right, seated, reading, and smoking a cigarette in a holder.
Dimensions
  • Height: 38.8cm
  • Width: 30.5cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1967. London: HMSO, 1968.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Kapp/.32' (Signed and dated)
  • 'Edgar Wallace' (Autographed in pencil)
  • (Inscribed by the artist with notes at top right)
Credit line
Given by the Miriam Sacher Charitable Trust
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1967 . London: HMSO, 1968.
Collection
Accession number
E.546-1967

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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