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Jesus in London - "Bring out the men, your brothers, the men for whom you died"

Maker

(artist)
1881-1956

(engraver)
1881-1956

(publisher)

Title

Jesus in London - "Bring out the men, your brothers, the men for whom you died"

Medium

Lithograph

Dimensions

Height: 30.8 cm
Width: 19.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5322

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

© Reserved

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







red dress


Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper right margin inside image, printed: JESUS / IN LONDON

Inscription: Recto: upper right margin inside image, printed: BY E. NESBIT / WITH SEVEN PICTURES / BY SPENCER PRYSE

Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin inside image, printed: "Bring out the men, your brothers, the men for whom you died"

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner inside image, stamped: HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION / H. J. CORNISH COLLECTION / 1928.

Inscription: Recto: upper margin centre, handwritten in graphite: neg. no. L15/30/4 (19)

Inscription: Verso: centre, writing in black, framed by red box, printed: 4 JESUS IN LONDON / "INASMUCH AS YE DID IT NOT-" / I / IF JESUS came to London, / Came to London to-day, / He would not go to the West End, / He would come down our way; / He'd talk with the children dancing / To the organ out in the street, / And say He was their Big Brother / And give them something to eat. / II / He wouldn't go to the mansions / Where the charitable live, / He'd come to the tenement houses / Where we ain't got nothing to give. / He'd come so kind and so homely, / And feed us with love and bread, / And then He'd tell us how to behave, / And then we'd mind what He said.

Inscription: Verso: upper right, handwritten in graphite: L15 / 31 / A (31).

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