Dorothy Newsome, Kashmir. Circa 1925.
Dorothy Newsome
Circa 1900-1980
Kashmir. Circa 1925.
Condition A-: small repaired tears at edges; creases and rippling in margins and image; small stain in upper image. Paper.
"In the late 1920s [Dorothy Newsome and Kathleen Irene Nixon] were commissioned by the Oxford University Press to visit India and execute a series of drawings . . . while there the Indian State Railways commissioned both women to design 34 colour posters of animals and birds" (The Dictionary of British Women Artists, p. 197).
39½x25¼ inches, 100¼x64 cm. G. Claridge & Co. Ltd. Bombay.
Dorothy Newsome
Circa 1900-1980
Kashmir. Circa 1925.
Condition A-: small repaired tears at edges; creases and rippling in margins and image; small stain in upper image. Paper.
"In the late 1920s [Dorothy Newsome and Kathleen Irene Nixon] were commissioned by the Oxford University Press to visit India and execute a series of drawings . . . while there the Indian State Railways commissioned both women to design 34 colour posters of animals and birds" (The Dictionary of British Women Artists, p. 197).
39½x25¼ inches, 100¼x64 cm. G. Claridge & Co. Ltd. Bombay.
