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Irrigators Southern Italy
Purchased 1922
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paper unique chalk graphite
Irrigators, Southern Italy
support: 549 × 813 mm
Purchased 1922
<p><b>N03640</b> IRRIGATORS, SOUTHERN ITALY <i>c.</i>
1899–1906
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Rebecca’ (?) b.r. and indecipherably b.c.
<br/>Red chalk and pencil, 21 5/8×30 3/4 (55×78), enlarged by a strip 1 to 1 1/4 (2·5 to 3) wide on right.
<br/>Purchased from the Leicester Galleries (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1922.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Carfax &amp; Co., November 1909 (43), as ‘The Irrigators’; Society of Twelve, 1915 (23, repr.), as ‘Irrigators, Southern Italy’; Leicester Galleries, April–May 1922 (67).</p>
<p>Probably a preparatory <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> for a bas-<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/relief" title="Glossary definition for 'Relief'"><span>relief</span></a> although this does not appear ever to have been carried out.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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actions: postures and motions adults agriculture and fishing architecture arm / arms raised bucket farm labourer group groups Italian man nationality objects people society standing townscapes / man-made features vessels and containers well work and occupations