Pencil and chalk drawing
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Measurements
602 x 420 mm
Order this imageCollection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 636765
Summary
One of three pencil and chalk drawings of the Lushington sisters as sketches for the finished composition in oils 'The Home Quartet'. Ebonised reeded frames. a) Kitty, Mrs Leo Maxse - standing facing with violin leaning slightly against a piece of furniture in a calf-length dress. Bobbed hair; b) Susan - standing facing right, calf-length dress,long hair; c) Margaret, Mrs Stephen Massingberd, seated, facing with her 'cello and shoulder length hair tied back.
Provenance
1944, gifted to the National Trust by Field Marshal Sir Archibald and Lady Montgomery Massingberd.