[Preliminary drawings for Virginia Woolf's Flush, a biography] ca. 1932 / [Vanessa Bell]

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[Preliminary drawings for Virginia Woolf's Flush, a biography] ca. 1932 / [Vanessa Bell]

Preliminary drawings by Bell to illustrate Virginia Woolf's Flush, a biography, published in 1933. Flush is a fictional biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog Flush. -- Figure on chaise lounge, possible study for the illustration "The back bedroom" in Flush (17.5 x 11 cm., in frame 13 x 26.5 cm.) -- Figure on chaise lounge and figure facing forward and on the verso figure facing forward (17.5 x 22.5 cm.) -- Figure looking out a window and figure on chaise lounge, rear view, and on the verso figure facing forward (17.5 x 23 cm.)

3 art originals : pencil drawing on paper

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SNAC Resource ID: 7970307

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961

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Vanessa Bell was born in 1879, daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and sister of Virginia Woolf. She studied art under Sir Arthur Cope and at the Royal Academy Schools under John Singer Sargent. In 1907 she married Clive Bell and worked mainly in London, Sussex and France. Vanessa Bell exhibited first at the New Gallery in 1905, and at the New English Art Club, the Allied Artists Association and at numerous London galleries. She became a member of the London Group in 1919 and her work was exhibited a...

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet and translator. Born on March 6, 1806, Barrett Browning became proficient in Greek, Latin, French, and other European languages. At the age of eleven she wrote a verse "epic" in four books of rhyming couplets, "The Battle of Marathon," which was privately printed in 1820 at her father's expense. She went on to write such works as "An essay on mind," "Sonnets from the Portuguese," and "Aurora Leigh." In September of 1846, she secretly marr...

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

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Virginia Woolf (b. January 25, 1882, London, England–d. March 28, 1941, Ouse, River, Englnad) was a noted novelist and is now viewed as a pioneer of feminist literature. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, comprised of English artists, philosophers, and writers in the early twentieth century. She was also a co-founder and operator (along with husband Leonard Woolf) of Hogarth Press. Though she received little formal education, her father, a writer and editor with strong ...