Return from the Raid (D1562)

Brangwyn Portfolio

1909-1910

55.9×73.7cm, watercolour

Standard reference: Bunt 532

Owner: pwu.

Provenance: Matthews & Brooke, Bradford, receipt dated 1923

Related work: Return from the raid (E830)

Ill: Brangwyn Portfolio 37 (35x47cm). N M Lazareva, Frenk Brengvin, Izobrazit 1978 plate 30

Sketch made in Taormina when Brangwyn visited his friend R H Kitson.

Jewel coloured sketch of eastern looking potentates in bright robes riding horses accompanied by followers and banners.  Dr Boswell notes the similarity to the figures in a procession of the Magi in Sicily.