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I got it from Agnes: PD.24-2014

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

I got it from Agnes

Maker(s)

Searle, Ronald William Fordham

Entities

Categories

Notes

History note: Ronald Searle

Legal notes

Given by the artist's family, 2014

Measurements and weight

Height: 435 mm
Width: 325 mm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2014) by Family of Ronald Searle

Dating

Production date: AD 1981

Techniques used in production

Drawing : Pen and black ink and black wash on paper

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Ronald Searle
  • Location: Lower left
  • Method of creation: Black ink
  • Type: Signature
  • Text: I got it from Agnes...
  • Location: Lower left
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: 'Unpublished illustration for 'Too many songs by Tom Lehrer with not enough drawings by Ronald Searle’, Eyre Methuen: London 1981./ I got it from Agnes/(Refused by publisher)
  • Location: Verso
  • Type: Inscription

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.24-2014
Primary reference Number: 199691
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Audit data

Created: Friday 20 February 2015 Updated: Friday 20 February 2015 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "I got it from Agnes" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/199691 Accessed: 2024-11-26 21:58:04

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