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Collection of studies and sketches

Artist: Henry Woods (1846 - 1921), Fanny Woods, Frank Stone, Marcus Stone

Location: British Museum

Date: circa 1860-1920

Materials: chalk; graphite; crayon; watercolour; wood engraving; pen & ink; gouache; oil

Dimensions: various

Gift:

Review number: 5350 (2003)

Provenance:
Mrs Pamela Myers (great-niece of Henry Woods).

Description:
A collection of drawings by Henry Woods, his sister Fanny Woods who married Sir Luke Fildes and Frank Stone, the father of a neighbour of Fildes. Henry Woods is seen both as a graphic artist and as a recorder of picturesque life in Venice, where he settled in 1876. Stone is represented by studies for his sentimental Regency subjects and by numerous landscape sketches.

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