Subject: Conversation Piece
Medium: Drawing
Date: 1920s
This pencil sketch would have been produced at lightning speed. Recording the figures going about their everyday lives would give the artist the confidence to sketch in this figure in his watercolour paintings using the brush only. Rarely do you observe any underdrawing in Knighton-Hammond's work. These clusters of figures can be seen in the streets or the harbourside in many of the artist's works