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Collection of Caricature Drawings

Henry Tonks, 1900–1937

British Museum, London

11 caricature drawings and watercolours including a watercolour of 'Don Quixote' (DS MacColl tilting at the Royal Academy Windmills), and a slight sketch showing the 'Rokeby Venus' and its examination by the experts Claude Phillips, Roger Fry and DS MacColl (main illustration). Plus 9 political illustrations to: D S MacColl 'Merry new ballad of Woodrow Wilson' (1915) and 'Ark: a Fable of Henry Ford' (1916).

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Title of artwork, date

Collection of Caricature Drawings, 1900–1937

Date supported

1937

Medium and material

Watercolour

Gifted by

Dugald Sutherland MacColl

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