Allegorical Composition with Nun Holding a Child and a Skeleton Personifying Death Taking the Arm of a Boy Holding a Book

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UCL Art Museum

London

Title

Allegorical Composition with Nun Holding a Child and a Skeleton Personifying Death Taking the Arm of a Boy Holding a Book

Date

1924

Medium

oil on canvas glued to millboard

Measurements

H 328 x W 190 cm

Accession number

LDUCS: PC5063

Acquisition method

presented by the Welsh Guards to UCL, 1959

Work type

Painting

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