IMAGE
Hodgkins, Frances Mary 1869-1947 :The young girl and death. Sarah Bernhardt. A rose among thorns. O Lord! he has almost cracked my head! [1887]
- Date
- 1887
- By
- Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947
- Reference
- E-423-q-006
- Description
Four ink drawings on one page. On the left, Sarah Bernhardt is depicted as a young girl with Death, a skeletal figure behind her. In the centre 'Rose among thorns' is a little girl wiping her mouth after eating something out of a bowl, a thornbush surrounding her. On the right 'Oh Lord! He has almost cracked my head!' may show Sarah Bernhardt in another role. It shows a woman clutching her head. In the centre foreground, a head and shoulders frontal portrait of a woman may also be Sarah Bernhardt.
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink 190 x 312 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Hodgkins, Frances Mary 1869-1947 :[Sketchbook] 1887 / Hodgkins, Frances Mary 1869-1947 :[Sketchbook] 1887
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Portraits, Ink 190 x 312 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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