1909-1910
coloured drawing, 51.6×44.1cm
Inscription: monogram b.r. ‘FB; inscribed above heads ‘GAETANA BUCCINI ANNI 100 MARTA /GALLO 94/gaetana BUCCINI/annus 100’
Owner: Borough of Walthamstow; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (1957.1369)
Studies: LLFA: (EP33), 35x27cm (13.8×10.6in), pencil on tracing paper, torn at edges. Head and shoulders of three women, t.l. profile squared, t.r. profile one of women in Old Italian Women. Below back view of woman with cap and hooded cloak. Prov: Peacock, sold in auction, Horns, 20/9/00, part Lot 266.
Related works: French Benevolent Society poster (P2645) and Station (S2732)
Illustrated: Brangwyn Portfolio (96) 34×27.5cm, lettering chnaged (not Brangwyn’s hand) ): ‘Gaetano BUCCINI/annus 100’ and ‘MaRTa di Gallo/74’
Three old women with shawls and sticks. Drawing full of character and sympathy.
There is a similar sketch of the same women in one of R H Kitson’s sketchbooks.