Lot 255
255
Figure scrubbing the floor

Figure scrubbing the floor

Details
Figure scrubbing the floor
inscribed 'Dimensions/Locking in pictures/Arches, shape of:/Width of piers./length of top pictures' (lower left)
pencil
7 x 9 in. (17.8 x 22.8 cm.)
and forty one other study sheets, pencil, watercolour, pen and ink on paper, card, an envelope, tracing paper, some squared for transfer, 11 x 30 in. (28 x 76.2 cm.) and smaller (42)

Lot Essay

The present drawing was probably executed while Spencer was working at the Sandham Memorial chapel, Burghclere between 1927 and 1932, the first of the panels for the chapel to be completed was Scrubbing the Floor, 1927, (Bell 130b). (See catalogue notes to lots 33, 78 and 250).

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