Home Guard: Escaped Prisoner
One of a set of fourteen watercolours of the Home Guard
Date: 1941-2
Inscriptions: Signed and inscribed: Officer, reading description of escaped prisoner to patrol: “Height 7ft 6, broad shoulders, probably armed, known to be fierce, and will resist arrest”.
Tags: War, Pencil, Pen, Watercolour, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper
Height (mm): 563
Width (mm): 767
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Artists International Association, 84 Charlotte Street, London W1, March 1944 (4), illus; Bristol 1950; Grasmere 1987 (137)
Provenance: Gillian Spencer, by descent; Liss Llewellyn; private collection.
Literature: Spencer 1974 pp. 138-9; Gough 2024 pp. 250-3
Date: 1941-2
Inscriptions: Signed and inscribed: Officer, reading description of escaped prisoner to patrol: “Height 7ft 6, broad shoulders, probably armed, known to be fierce, and will resist arrest”.
Tags: War, Pencil, Pen, Watercolour, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper
Height (mm): 563
Width (mm): 767
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Artists International Association, 84 Charlotte Street, London W1, March 1944 (4), illus; Bristol 1950; Grasmere 1987 (137)
Provenance: Gillian Spencer, by descent; Liss Llewellyn; private collection.
Literature: Spencer 1974 pp. 138-9; Gough 2024 pp. 250-3