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A Holiday Task

Maker

(artist)
1861-1945

Title

A Holiday Task

Date of Production

executed :

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 24.7 cm
Width: 18.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5253

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






golf club


holiday


Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper centre margin, printed: PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI - JUNE 3, 1914.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, printed: A HOLIDAY TASK. / PRIME AND WAR MINISTER. "AFRAID I'VE LET YOU IN FOR RATHER AN AWKWARD JOB / WITH THIS AMENDING BILL." / LORD CREWE. "MY DEAR FELLOW, YOU'RE SO VERSATILE--WHY NOT SPEND THE / REST OF THE RECESS MAKING YOURSELF A BARON OR A BISHOP? THEN YOU COULD / TAKE IT ON INSTEAD OF ME."

Inscription: Verso: centre, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY 1979

Stamp: Verso: centre, stamped: HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION. / H. J. CORNISH COLLECTION. / 1928.

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