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Head of a Young Black Man (1920)

(Alfred) Neville Lewis

etching, printed in brown ink on cream paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Head of a Young Black Man (1920)

© The Artist's Estate Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Print

Materials:

Ink

Physical Object Description:

Head and shoulders portrait of unidentified young black man, eyes to right. Signed on plate and in pencil. Verso annotated with queried date and "3 or 4 impressions taken" in unknown hand.

Technique:

Etching

Dimensions:

14.8 x 10 cm

Accession Number:

1926,0313.38

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1926

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Prints and Drawings Fund, 1920-26; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1926

Subject:

Black (presence)

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