Town backyards
Drawing
2 March 1934 (published)
2 March 1934 (published)
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| Place of origin |
Pen and ink drawing. A cat watches from a wall as a man gardens a tiny plot in the back yard of his terraced house, which includes dust bins and coal bunker.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Town backyards (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink on paper |
| Brief description | Drawing, ‘Tillers of backyards’, pen and ink on paper, by Arthur Watts, illustration to a short piece in the Radio Times, 2 March 1934. |
| Physical description | Pen and ink drawing. A cat watches from a wall as a man gardens a tiny plot in the back yard of his terraced house, which includes dust bins and coal bunker. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | Town Backyards. (In pencil below image) |
| Credit line | Given by Charles Cox |
| Object history | ‘Tillers of backyards’ illustrated a paragraph about a talk on the menace of war, and backyard gardeners, in the Radio Times magazine, 2 March 1934. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.1229-2023 |
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| Record created | August 21, 2023 |
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