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Portrait head study of unidentified man
Portrait head study of unidentified man

Portrait head study of unidentified man

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Object Details

Title:
Portrait head study of unidentified man
Date:
Date unknown
Artist:
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
8 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.
Classification
Drawings-watercolors
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015
Description

Oakley drew this study on the back of a prospectus advertising the September 1930 publication of Maritime Trade in War: Lectures on the Freedom of the Seas by Lord Eustace Percy.

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