The Cock Tavern, from In Thackeray's London

Prints and Drawings

c. 1913

Francis Hopkinson Smith
American, 1838-1915

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Francis Hopkinson Smith
Title: The Cock Tavern, from In Thackeray's London
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1912–1913
Medium: Charcoal, with touches of gray pastel and stumping, highlighted with touches of white chalk, 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 in another hand, lower left, on secondary support, in graphite: “The Old Cock Tavern. Fleet Street”
Dimensions: Primary support: 48 × 67.6 cm (18 15/16 × 26 5/8 in.); Secondary support: 50.6 × 70 cm (19 15/16 × 27 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Waller Fund
Reference Number: 1914.382

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