Stage Set with a Statue Of Saint George Slaying the Dragon

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series Title

Set Designs for Drury Lane Theatre

Medium

watercolor and gouache with pen and black ink over graphite, heightened with white gouache on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 25.2 x 34.5 cm (9 15/16 x 13 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.81

Artists / Makers

Robert Caney (artist) British, 1847 - 1911

Image Use

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower left in watercolor: RC; by unknown hand, lower right verso in graphite: 1 (in circle)

Provenance

probably Miss Dinah Caney (sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1973, part of lot 299); (bought by Christopher Powney); Finchden Manor, Tenterden, Kent; Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1977; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Finchden Manor
McCrindle, Joseph F.

Exhibition History

2012: The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 130-132, no. 54 (entry by Julie Blake Shook).