etching on cream wove paper, signed in pencil, C. Stanley Pollitt, lower right, titled lower left, a note at the lower sheet edge in a different hand states Paris Salon 1930, and on the reverse states Pub. at £1.1s,
Pollitt (Charles Stanley)
Meditation,
£150
, , c.1930.
an exquisitely detailed bust-length portrait of a fashionable young lady deep in thought. 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..
170 by 120mm (6¾ by 4¾ inches).


