Drawing for "The Dancing Class", Period Piece: PD.415-1975

Materials used in production

Conté crayon (TM)
Black ink
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper ( laid down)

Techniques used in production

Drawing : Graphite, pen and black ink, blue conté crayon

Inscription or legends present

• Text: Oh no, my dear contemporaries: don't think I / know very well that neither you, nor your / mothers, nor your nurses, nor even Miss / Ratcliffe herself, ever looked in the worst like this. / This is one of these modern Psychological / Pictures ; it is what it felt like to me. / I am not in the picture, because I had just been / sent out of the room in [?] disgrace.
• Location: Upper, centre and lower right
• Method of creation: Graphite

• Text: (instructions and measurements for printing)
• Location: Upper centre, lower left, centre and right
• Method of creation: Graphite and blue Conté crayon

• Text: 71
• Location: Upper right
• Method of creation: Blue chalk

Related exhibitions

• Gwen Raverat

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.415-1975
Primary reference Number: 6883
Stable URI

Audit data

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints