Graphite and chalk on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Art Fund
Collection
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British Museum Reading Room May 1907
Presented by Sir Michael Sadler through the Art Fund 1931
adults
architecture
arts
British Museum
builder
building site
history
industrial and crafts
interiors
library
man
museum
organisation: British Museum Reading Room, London, renovation, 1907
people
places
public and municipal
scaffolding
townscapes / man-made features
UK London
work and occupations
paper unique graphite chalk
28 March 2012 – 14 October 2012
2012-10-14
28 March 2012 – 14 October 2012
2012-10-14
2012-03-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-03-28
Patrick Keiller
Collection based display
The British Museum Reading Room, May 1907
support: 780 × 768 mm
Presented by Sir Michael Sadler through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1931
<p><b>N04587</b>	THE BRITISH MUSEUM READING ROOM, MAY 1907 1907
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Muirhead Bone: London, 1907’ b.l.
<br/>Pencil, 30 3/4×30 (78×76·5), including strips 4 1/4 (11·5) wide added top and bottom.
<br/>Presented by Sir Michael Sadler through the National Art-Collections Fund 1931.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Society of Twelve</i>, Obach &amp; Co., January 1908 (68); <i>Twenty Years of British Art</i> 1890–1910, Whitechapel Art Gallery, May–June 1910 (119), lent by M.E. Sadler; <i>Scottish Exhibition</i>, Glasgow, May–October 1911 (black-and-white, 55); C.A.S., <i>Loan Collection of Modern Paintings</i>, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, October 1912 (99); C.A.S., <i>First Public Exhibition in London</i>, Goupil Gallery, April 1913 (91).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Frank Rinder, ‘London Exhibitions’ in <i>Art Journal</i>, 1908, p.69.</p>
<p>Drawn in May 1907 when the Reading Room was being cleaned and painted.</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</p>
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adults architecture arts British Museum builder building site history industrial and crafts interiors library man museum organisation: British Museum Reading Room, London, renovation, 1907 people places public and municipal scaffolding townscapes / man-made features UK London work and occupations