Albert Joseph Moore A.R.W.S. 1841-1893

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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Description

Albert Joseph Moore A.R.W.S.
study of a classical figure
signed with an anthemion l.l.
black and white chalk
30 by 17 cm., 11 ¾ by 6 ¾ in.

Provenance

Probably Sotheby's, Billingshurst, 20 October 1987, lot 1914

Exhibited

New York, Shepherd Gallery, 'English Romantic Art 1840-1920, Pre-Raphaelites, Academics, Symbolists', 1994, no. 95

Literature

Magazine of Art, 1885, repr. opp. p. 195

Catalogue Note

This drawing was made specifically for illustration in the Magazine of Art of 1885 although it relates to a series of single figure paintings of women dressed in togas reading.