Lot 120: * Robinson (Thomas Heath, 1865-1950 ). The Death

* Robinson (Thomas Heath, 1865-1950 ). The Death Chamber at The Elysee, 1894, monochrome wash drawing on pale brown paper, heightened with grey and white bodycolour, signed with artist's monogram to lower left, 19.5 x 24.5cm (7.75 x 9.75ins), contemp. gilt moulded frame, glazed. This original drawing depicts the funeral chamber of Marie Francois Sadi Carnot, 4th President of the Third French Republic in 1894, following his assassination by the Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio on the 24th June, 1894. With pencil inscription (corrected in ink) to verso: 'The Death Chamber at the Elysee - the room was not accessible to the general public - reserved for the family. Several pupils of the Ecole Polytechnique worked guard with drawn sword, and an officer of the [?] was present. Two sisters were praying; and by the Prie-Dieu in the foreground Madame Carnot knelt'. (1)
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