Sir George Clausen RA, Studies of a digging figure.
Pencil on laid paper. 201 mm x 275 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Sir George Clausen RA, Studies of a digging figure.
Pencil on laid paper. 201 mm x 275 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
This image is not available to download. To licence this image for commercial purposes, contact our Picture Library at picturelibrary@royalacademy.org.uk
Sir George Clausen RA, Studies of a digging figure.
Pencil on laid paper. 201 mm x 275 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
This image is not available to download. To licence this image for commercial purposes, contact our Picture Library at picturelibrary@royalacademy.org.uk
Sir George Clausen RA, Studies of a digging figure.
Pencil on laid paper. 201 mm x 275 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
This image is not available to download. To licence this image for commercial purposes, contact our Picture Library at picturelibrary@royalacademy.org.uk
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
201 mm x 275 mm
recto
verso
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