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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/elsie-marian-henderson-1267" aria-label="More by Elsie Marian Henderson" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Elsie Marian Henderson</a>
Three Leopards
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1917
animals: mammals
leopard
paper unique charcoal
Three Studies of Leopards
support: 248 × 375 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1917
<p><b>N03206</b> THREE STUDIES OF LEOPARDS 1916
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<br/>Inscr. ‘E M Henderson.’ b.l.
<br/>Russian charcoal on thin brown packing paper, 9 3/4×14 3/4 (25×37).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1917.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Nos. 3206–7 were purchased from the artist by the C.A.S. on the advice of Sydney Cockerell 1917; a third drawing purchased at the same time was presented to the British Museum.</p>
<p>The artist wrote of this and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/henderson-a-tiger-n03207" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03207</span></a> (3 February 1958): ‘The Leopard studies were done at the London Zoological Gardens in 1916 and probably the Tiger also, but if not then from memory - I must have done hundreds of <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>drawings</span></a> at the Zoo at that time - many of them very fragmentary and very rapidly done - my visual memory being very strong, I drew a great deal from memory.’</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, I
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animals: mammals leopard