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The British Museum Reading Room

Sir Muirhead Bone, 1890–1953

This work is part of an important public gift in the memory of Lady Sadler by Sir Michael Sadler, a member of the Executive Committee of the Art Fund in 1931. It takes the form of a collection of pictures and drawings, together with some objects of Oriental art. One of nineteen gifts to fifteen museums by Sir Michael Sadler through the Art Fund between 1921 and 1942.

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Title of artwork, date

The British Museum Reading Room, 1890–1953

Date supported

1931

Medium and material

Pencil

Dimensions

76 x 75 cm

Gifted by

Sir Michael Sadler

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