David Drummond Bone, looking to the left

Bone, Muirhead, Sir, 1876-1953 · 1899

A man with a beard - the artist's father - wearing a black velvet smoking cap, looking down and writing in a notebook. The light coat is open, showing the waistcoat and black tie. The plate cut immediately above the line and so reduced to the height to 106 mm. The right sleeve and the front of the coat adjoining it have additional vertical shading, and the notebook is more clearly defined ; in the first state there was but one line, the edge of the book, beneath the left hand.