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

Object information

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Titles

Drawing for "The Dancing Class", Period Piece

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Raverat, Gwendolen

Entities

Categories

Measurements and weight

Height: 126 mm
Width: 212 mm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1975-10) by Gurney, Sophie and Hambro, Elisabeth

Dating

Production date: AD 1952

Note

Drawing for the right-hand side of The Dancing Class.

School or Style

British

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

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Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.415-1975
Primary reference Number: 6883
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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