Information

It is possible that this drapery study was drawn from an artist's dummy as the figure has no head or hands. However, Sandys uses a very similar costume in another sheet of drawings featuring a human model (private collection) and Betty Elzea suggests that they may have been made for the same, unknown, subject and perhaps in the same session (Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné, p. 220).

  • Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Frederick Sandys -

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley 1939 Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby p. 396
 
Frederick Sandys 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné
Betty Elzea 2001 Antique Collectors' Club in association with Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service No. 2.B.62., p. 220

Provenance

Almost certainly to have been acquired by Charles Fairfax Murray from the artist, or from the sale of the contents of the Sandys family home after the death of Sandys' mother in September 1883 (Elzea).

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