AN ENGLISH CUBIST

WILLIAM ROBERTS:

Dignity

Illustration © The Estate of John David Roberts. Reproduced with the permission of the William Roberts Society. Catalogue information based on the catalogue raisonné by David Cleall. For this and full details of the exhibitions cited, see the links below. Any auction prices quoted may not include all fees and taxes, such as VAT and Artist's Resale Right charges.
Images scanned from the Sedgwick copy of the 1926 Seven Pillars of Wisdom are used by courtesy of Mrs J. Sedgwick and are not to be further reproduced except by permission.

Dignity, 1925–6 (figure on horseback with attendants)
Ink, 36.5 cm x 28 ccm

Tailpiece drawing for Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: 'Abdulla, on a white mare, came to us softly with a bevy of richly-armed slaves on foot about him, through the silent respectful salutes of the town' (ch. 8).
PROVENANCE: Bayard L. Kilgour Jr > Houghton Library, Harvard University (1966, MS Eng 1653, no. 3)
EXHIBITION HISTORY: National Portrait Gallery 1988, Imperial War Museum 2005