Portrait head studies of Sir Austen Chamberlain, delegate from Great Britain to the League of Nations

League of Nations Portraits

Geneva, Switzerland

Object Details

Title:

Date:

1927

Artist:

Medium:

Graphite on pink paper between hinged mats with framing lines in brown wash

Dimensions

9 ½ x 6 ½ (image)

Classification

Drawings-watercolors

Credit Line:

Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015

Description

[lower left between framing lines on mat in graphite]: Sir Austen Chamberlain; [bottom right on glass printed on label]: 157; [verso label 1 of 2 in black ink]: 209 [in triangle]; [verso label 2 of 2 in black ink]: Leage of Nations Series / Sir Austen Chamberlain / Delegate from Great / Britain / by Violet Oakley; [verso in black ink]: P-821

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