Percy Wyndham Lewis
Drawing
1914 (made)
1914 (made)
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Caricature portrait of the painter and writer Percy Wyndham Lewis at the Café Royal, London. Lewis is depicted half length, in profile, seated at a table with a wine glass and smoking a cigarette.
Object details
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| Title | Percy Wyndham Lewis (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Chinese ink and black chalk |
| Brief description | Caricature drawing of Percy Wyndham Lewis at the Café Royal, London. Profile half-length, in chinese ink and black chalk, by Edmond Xavier Kapp. 1914. |
| Physical description | Caricature portrait of the painter and writer Percy Wyndham Lewis at the Café Royal, London. Lewis is depicted half length, in profile, seated at a table with a wine glass and smoking a cigarette. |
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| Credit line | Given by the Miriam Sacher Charitable Trust |
| Object history | An almost identical portrait of Wyndham Lewis was No.23 in the exhibition of drawings and caricatures by Edmond Kapp, held at the Little Art Rooms, Adelphi, London, 1 to 22 May 1919, and was reproduced (though not exhibited) in the catalogue of the retrospective exhibition of the artist's paintings and drawings, held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, April to May 1961. It is reproduced as Pl.8 to the artist's Personalities, London, 1919. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1967 . London: HMSO, 1968. |
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| Accession number | E.530-1967 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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