Drawings and Water Colours / WD115 Gannymede 1864 Coloured chalks on brown wove paper 600 x 420 mm.Bequest: George Powell 1882'Gannymede' is a persona adopted by the character 'Rosalind' in Shakespeare's play 'As You Like It'
show object description Imaginative portrait of the Shakespearean character 'Gannymede'. Head and shoulders, three-quarter portrait of a young woman with long, blond, straggly hair. She tilts her head slightly backwards and looks upwards. Part-tonal chalk drawing, mainly in black, but with buff, blue, red and white chalks used for face and hair. Paper badly faded with heavy foxing
Imaginative portrait of the Shakespearean character 'Gannymede'. Head and shoulders, three-quarter portrait of a young woman with long, blond, straggly hair. She tilts her head slightly backwards and looks upwards. Part-tonal chalk drawing, mainly in black, but with buff, blue, red and white chalks used for face and hair. Paper badly faded with heavy foxing --other objects by this Artist/Maker-- (Oil Paintings) OP62 Bacchus
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