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Staple Inn, from In Thackeray's London

A work made of charcoal, with white chalk, gray pastel and stumping, on light gray laid paper with blue fibers, laid down on wood pulp board.

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  • A work made of charcoal, with white chalk, gray pastel and stumping, on light gray laid paper with blue fibers, laid down on wood pulp board.

Date:

c. 1913

Artist:

Francis Hopkinson Smith
American, 1838-1915

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Francis Hopkinson Smith

Title

Staple Inn, from In Thackeray's London

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1912–1913

Medium

Charcoal, with white chalk, gray pastel and stumping, on light gray laid paper with blue fibers, laid down on wood pulp board

Inscriptions

Signed recto lower right, on primary support, in charcoal: “F Hopkinson Smith”; inscribed lower right, in graphite: “46”; inscribed in another hand, lower center, on secondary support, in graphite: “Staple Inn. High Holbourn”

Dimensions

Primary support: 50 × 72.2 cm (19 11/16 × 28 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 52.5 × 72.5 cm (20 11/16 × 28 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

W. Moses Willner Fund

Reference Number

1914.375

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