Frederick James Shields (1833-1911)

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Frederick James Shields (1833-1911)

A Cartoon for a Fresco of Eve, Cain and Abel

black chalk and watercolour heightened with white on blue-grey paper
53 x 18½in. (134.7 x 47cm.)
Exhibited
Manchester, Municipal School of Art, Studies and Drawings by Frederick Shields, 1906, no.56, repr. in cat, pl.XXIII

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A full-scale cartoon for one of Shields' paintings in the Chapel of the Ascension in the Bayswater Road, London, the magnum opus of his later years which was destroyed by enemy action during the Second World War.

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