IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 317478 accession number: P.15144-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 22 May 2024 updated: Friday 25 October 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cancelled copper plate for, The Reader, a portrait of the artist's father-in-law, Reverend Nathaniel Royds (1936-1921). Worked in drypoint with printing ink still adhered in places and marked with several of the printmaker's inky fingerprints, indicating that a cancellation proof was made. The burrs are worn down. A strong horizontal line at lower centre indicates the cancellation of the plate above which is inscribed in drypoint, Lumsden's initials in monogram: 'ESL' and '40 imps'. Inscribed in drypoint at upper left: 'To the Fitzwilliam Museum Sep 1920 / Portrait of Rev. Nat.l Royds M.A., Trinity College Cambridge / ESL'. At lower left: 'LUMSDEN 1920'. title: printing plate LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Given by E.S. Lumsden, 1920 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/317478 CATEGORIES ------ category: printing matrix DATING ------ creation date: 1920 - 1920 creation date earliest: 1920 creation date latest: 1920 culture: 20th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Lumsden, Ernest Stephen DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: mm value: 155 dimension: Width units: mm value: 215