etching on cream wove paper, signed in pencil, C. Stanley Pollitt, lower right, titled lower left, and inscribed Trial Proof No.2, Final State, a note on the reverse in a different hand states Published at 1 guinea,
Pollitt (Charles Stanley)
"Home-work",
£150
, , c.1930.
perfectly capturing the somnolent effect of study on a young girl, slumped asleep in a chair with a slate on her lap and books lying open on the floor. Charles Stanley Pollitt (1888-1965), painter and printmaker, was a follower of the Pre-Raphaelites having trained as the studio assistant of William Holman Hunt. Later he travelled and worked on the Continent, including as a copyist at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, then becoming Professor of English at the Vatican..
245 by 147mm (9¾ by 5¾ inches).


