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Georgiana Houghton : spirit drawings

by Simon Grant, Lars Bang Larsen

This volume examines a series of abstract watercolours produced through mediumship in the 1860s and 1870s. Prepared for a Courtauld Gallery exhibition, it documents these early Victorian experiments in non-figurative art and spiritualist practice.

Accession 12218 ISBN 9781911300021 Publisher The Courtauld Gallery
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