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Preparatory drawing

Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie 1934

Seated three-quarter length in a wooden arm-chair wearing a black academic gown over a suit, holding an indistinct object in his right hand, which rests on the arm of the chair

Charcoal, heightened with white on a page from a sketchbook, 55.9 x 37.5 cm (22 x 14 ¾ in.)

Inscribed lower right: Sir Flinders / Petry / P AdeL / 1934 July / 19

Inscribed top right: 34 

Sitters’ Book II, f. 78: Flinders Petrie. July 19. [among signatures dated 1934]

Studio Inventory, p. 147 (68): Sir Flinders Petrie

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