Sailor's Return

Joseph Clark (1834-1926)

1885

Pen and ink and watercolour on paper

H 33.9 cm x W 27.3 cm

© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Accession no. E 945-2003

Credit: Given by Rosemary Chiles

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This was a preparatory sketch for the oil painting shown under the title Home Again, which Clark exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1885, and which the reviewer in The Builder considered to be "not equal to Mr Clark at his best, but interesting in the figures and face [sicJacqueline Banerjee