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Woman with Two Monks. Verso: Man in Eastern Costume

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Alfred Crowquill

Woman with Two Monks. Verso: Man in Eastern Costume

11 1/8 x 9 5/16 inches (284 x 237 mm)
Graphite, on paper.
1956.28:74

Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1956.

Notes
Drawing on leaf removed from a sketchbook; evidently intended as a preliminary sketch for an illustration for an unidentified publication.
Title devised by cataloger.
Summary

Drawing shows a woman standing in a rocky landscape at left beside a large monk who stands with a pitcher in his hands as a second monk kneels in front of a cross cut into the rock at right; thumbnail sketch of a variant design for the same scene in upper margin. Drawing on verso of a man in Eastern dress standing in profile to the left.

Associated names
Fales, DeCoursey, 1888-1966, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department