Graphite and crayon on paper
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Great Gantry Charing Cross Station
Presented by Miss Evelyn de Ponsonby McGhee 1908
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architecture
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Charing Cross Station
disaster: Charing Cross Station, collapse, 5 Dec 1905
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paper unique graphite crayon
23 June 2009 – 5 September 2009
2009-09-05
23 June 2009 – 5 September 2009
2009-09-05
2009-06-23
Fleming Collection (London, UK)
http://www.flemingcollection.co.uk
2009-06-23
Sir Muirhead Bone
Loan-out
Study for ‘The Great Gantry, Charing Cross Station’
support: 262 × 378 mm
Presented by Miss Evelyn de Ponsonby McGhee 1908
<p><b>N02300</b>	STUDY FOR ‘THE GREAT GANTRY, CHARING CROSS STATION, 1906’ 1906
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Muirhead Bone 1906. First drawing drawn on the spot’ b.c.
<br/>Pencil, 10 5/16×14 1/2 (26·25×37·75).
<br/>Presented by Miss E. P. McGhee 1908.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Society of Twelve</i>, Obach &amp; Co., November 1906 (40, as study for a print).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Campbell Dodgson, <i>Etchings and Dry Points by Muirhead Bone</i>, 1909, I, pp.138–40.
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<p>A study for the elaborate <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> in the British Museum (exh. <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/n/new-english-art-club" title="Glossary definition for 'New English Art Club'"><span>N.E.A.C</span></a>., November–December 1906 (10), and repr. Sir Joseph Duveen, <i>Thirty Years of British Art</i>, 1930, p.31) of the gantry erected after the accident to the roof of Charing Cross Station on 5 December 1905. Another study, inscribed ‘Muirhead Bone, 1907’ but presumably also made in 1906, was lent by Miss R. M. Welsford to the 1955 memorial exhibitions at Manchester (22) and the Arts Council (20) as ‘Study No.3’. The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> was <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraved</span></a> in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drypoint" title="Glossary definition for 'Drypoint'"><span>drypoint</span></a> 1906–7.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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2004-09-23T00:00:00
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adults architecture builder Charing Cross Station disaster: Charing Cross Station, collapse, 5 Dec 1905 England history industrial and crafts man people places politics and society public and municipal railway railway station scaffolding townscapes / man-made features UK countries and regions UK London work and occupations