Metadata: Study collection of drawings and lithographs by Sir William Rothenstein and other artists
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Tate Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Tate Archive
- Postal address:
- Tate BritainMillbankLondonUnited KingdomSW1P 4RG
- Web address:
- https://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive
- Reference number:
- TGA 997
- Title:
- Study collection of drawings and lithographs by Sir William Rothenstein and other artists
- Title (official language):
- Study collection of drawings and lithographs by Sir William Rothenstein and other artists
- Creator/accumulator:
- Rothenstein, William
- Date(s):
- 1896/1942
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 185 pieces
- Scope and content:
- These 179 drawings and lithographs cover the period 1896 to 1942. The drawings are in pencil, pastel or crayon on a variety of different coloured papers and card. As well as portraits and farm scenes there are also drawings Rothenstein made on a long trip to India in 1910-11 and others which date from his service as an official war artist in both world wars. There are also ten drawings by other artists and these have been arranged at the end of the collection.Additional information in square brackets has been given by Max Rutherston.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- William Rothenstein was born in 1872 in Bradford. He studied art at the Slade School 1888-9 and in Paris at the Académie Julian from 1889 - 1893. Although he painted landscapes, people and architectural subjects he specialised in portraiture and published several series of lithographs from 1893, completing 800 portraits by 1926. He died in 1945.
- Access points: locations:
- India
- Access points: persons/families:
- Rothenstein, William
- Subject terms:
- Art
- Drawings
- World War I
- World War II
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
-
Online catalogue.
Some of the items from this collection have been digitised.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://archive.tate.org.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqServer=tdc-calm&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27TGA%20997%27)
- https://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/tga-997/study-collection-of-drawings-and-lithographs-by-sir-william-rothenstein-and-other-artists
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
