AN ENGLISH CUBISTWILLIAM ROBERTS:The Dogs of HarithIllustration © 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. The Dogs of Harith, 19256 Red ink and pencil, 33.5 cm x 27.5 cm Tailpiece drawing for Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: 'The greatest asset of Feisal's cause in this work up North was Sherif Ali ibn el Hussein . . . His pride broke out in his war-cry, "I am of the Harith", the two-thousand-year-old clan of freebooters' (ch. 79). The composition is more elaborate than that in the study and in the related Dogs of the Beni Hillal an Arabian Legend 1925. PROVENANCE: Bayard L. Kilgour Jr > Houghton Library, Harvard University (1966, MS Eng 1653, no. 2) EXHIBITION HISTORY: National Portrait Gallery 1988, Imperial War Museum 2005 Home page | Chronology | Bibliography | Collections | Exhibitions News | Gallery | Auction results | The artists house | Contact List of works illustrated on the site Catalogue raisonné: chronological | alphabetical |