If I Were a Boy Again
If I Were a Boy Again

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This work depicts Bob Blackett as a Scout bathed in light with his promising future ahead of him. His father is seated in the darkness looking on enviously at his son with the implication that he has wasted his life and not done something positive like Scouting.

The Scouts Heritage Service

London

Title

If I Were a Boy Again

Date

1911

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 99 x W 124.5 cm

Accession number

TSA/2021

Acquisition method

presented by Roland House

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Ernest S. Carlos, 1911

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