Sir Augustus Edwin John, O.M., R.A.

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Artist/Maker	Kapp, Edmond Xavier (artist)
Place of origin	Britain (made)

Portrait of the painter Sir Augustus Edwin John. A head and shoulders portrait of John, facing slightly right and smoking a pipe.

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Categories	Drawings Portraits
Object type	Drawing
Title	Sir Augustus Edwin John, O.M., R.A. (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Black chalk on tracing paper Tracing Paper Black Chalk
Brief description	Head and shoulders portrait of the painter Sir Augustus Edwin John. Black and chalk drawing on tracing paper by Edmond Xavier Kapp, 1914.
Physical description	Portrait of the painter Sir Augustus Edwin John. A head and shoulders portrait of John, facing slightly right and smoking a pipe.
Dimensions	Height: 26.7cm Width: 24.2cm Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1967. London: HMSO, 1968.
Marks and inscriptions	'Kapp '14' (Inscribed in pencil with name of sitter etc., and signed and dated)
Credit line	Given by the Miriam Sacher Charitable Trust
Object history	A similar portrait of Augustus John with variant details was No. 18 in the exhibition of drawings and caricatures by Edmond Kapp, held at the Little Art Rooms, Adelphi, London, 1 to 22 May 1919. It is reproduced as Pl.7 to the artist's Personalities, London, 1919.
Subjects depicted	Pipe John, Augustus
Bibliographic reference	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1967 . London: HMSO, 1968.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.529-1967

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O693376/sir-augustus-edwin-john-om-drawing-kapp-edmond-xavier/

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