The cowherd (1925)

Robert Sargent Austin

etching

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Classification:

Physical Object Description:

Boy resting at the foot of a wayside crucifix, cows grazing behind. 1925 Etching. Signed on plate. Signed, dated and annotated: "1st state. 1 proof".

Technique:

Etching

Dimensions:

12.4 x 11.3 cm

Accession Number:

1927,0709.122

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1927

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with the Prints and Drawings Fund, 1925; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1927

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

Cow

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