'Love, Youth and Death’
Alfred Garth Jones
Dated ‘99’ [1899]
Graphite drawing
8 x 5 inches
Pen and ink drawing in The Studio 24 (1902) 133
One of Jones’s exquisite drawings in the manner of Dürer, which also recalls the ‘hard line’ style of first stage Pre-Raphaelitism and the ‘Germanic’ designs of Fred Sandys. Jones’s combination of psychological drama, gloominess and intricate verisimilitude is more in the style of the middle of the century than the end.
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