Sir George Clausen RA, Studies of a digging figure
Sir George Clausen RA, Studies of a digging figure
Sir George Clausen RA, Studies of a digging figure
Sir George Clausen RA, Studies of a digging figure

Studies of a digging figure

Sir George Clausen RA (1852 - 1944)

RA Collection: Art

This sheet incudes two detailed pencil studies from front and back of a man bending over whilst digging with a fork. There are also rough outlines of two upright figures on the same sheet. It was grouped with a number of other drawing dating from the period that Clausen spent in Childwick Green, near St Albans, between 1881-1884. The figure, wearing a shallow-brimmed hat and gaiters, is comparable with the character seen in the foreground of oil and watercolour compositions on the theme of hoeing turnips produced around this time inlclusing Hoeing Turnips (oil on canvas, 1883; private collection).

Object details

Artist/designer
Sir George Clausen RA (1852 - 1944)
Object type
Drawing
Medium
Pencil on laid paper
Dimensions

201 mm x 275 mm

Collection
Royal Academy of Arts
Object number
05/778
Acquisition
Given by Hugh Clausen 1970

recto

Title
Studies of a digging figure

verso

Title
Studies of two digging/bending figures
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