The Ten Commandments: Thou Shalt not Steal (Sheep Stealing)
Date: 1929
Inscriptions: lr: Gilbert Spencer 1929
Tags: Biblical, Illustration, Pencil, Pen, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil, pen and ink on paper, squared for transfer
Height (mm): 365
Width (mm): 540
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Goupil 1929 (41); British Council, Allied Institutes as 'Breaking of the Sixth [sic] Commandment' (details untraced); Cairo, British Council, International Art Exhibition, 1947 as 'Breaking the Sixth [sic] Commandment'; London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Catalogue of Part of a Collection of Oil Paintings, Water Colours, Drawings and Sculpture Belonging to W. A. Evill, Esq., December 1947 - February 1948, (83); London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Pictures, Drawings, Water Colours and Sculpture, April - May 1961, (part IV- section 1) (13); Reading 1964 (117); Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, The Wilfrid Evill Memorial Exhibition, June - August 1965 (184).
Provenance: Phyllis Spender-Clay in 1929; Mrs Philip Nichols; Christie's, Red Cross Sale, 1942 (as Illustration for 6th (sic) Commandment); Acquired by Wilfrid A. Evill October 1942 (probably from the above sale) for £8.0, by whom bequeathed to Honor Frost in 1963; Sotheby's, 16 June 2011 lot 137
Inscriptions: lr: Gilbert Spencer 1929
Tags: Biblical, Illustration, Pencil, Pen, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil, pen and ink on paper, squared for transfer
Height (mm): 365
Width (mm): 540
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Goupil 1929 (41); British Council, Allied Institutes as 'Breaking of the Sixth [sic] Commandment' (details untraced); Cairo, British Council, International Art Exhibition, 1947 as 'Breaking the Sixth [sic] Commandment'; London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Catalogue of Part of a Collection of Oil Paintings, Water Colours, Drawings and Sculpture Belonging to W. A. Evill, Esq., December 1947 - February 1948, (83); London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Pictures, Drawings, Water Colours and Sculpture, April - May 1961, (part IV- section 1) (13); Reading 1964 (117); Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, The Wilfrid Evill Memorial Exhibition, June - August 1965 (184).
Provenance: Phyllis Spender-Clay in 1929; Mrs Philip Nichols; Christie's, Red Cross Sale, 1942 (as Illustration for 6th (sic) Commandment); Acquired by Wilfrid A. Evill October 1942 (probably from the above sale) for £8.0, by whom bequeathed to Honor Frost in 1963; Sotheby's, 16 June 2011 lot 137