Titled, annotated and with the artist’s studio stamp (verso)

Watercolour, 35 by 26 cm

Literature: Barbara Jones, The Unsophisticated Arts, 1951, p.119; Ruth Artmonsky, A Snapper Up of Unconsidered Trifles – A Tribute to Barbara Jones, Artmonsky Arts, 2008, no.A2

The present work is illustrated in black and white in Jones’s landmark 1951 book The Unsophisticated Arts – her highly influential exploration of popular everyday and vernacular arts in Britain. In her depiction of waxworks in London’s Madame Tussaud’s she shows four figures from Western Christianity:  John Calvin, William Knox, William of Wykeham.