Interior of the Cheshire Cheese, 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: Interior of the Cheshire Cheese, 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, heightened with white chalk, on light gray laid paper with blue fibers, laid down on wood pulp board
Inscriptions: Signed recto lower left, on primary support, in charcoal: “F Hopkinson Smith”; inscribed lower right, in graphite: (illegible); inscribed in another hand, lower left, on secondary support, in graphite: “Interior of the Cheshire Cheese”
Dimensions: Primary support: 47.7 × 67.3 cm (18 13/16 × 26 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 48.9 × 68.6 cm (19 5/16 × 27 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: W. Moses Willner Fund
Reference Number: 1914.384

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