Artist

W Hawkins

W Hawkins is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Hawkins had a habit of hiding tiny jokes in his prints—look closely at the corner of "H Beard Print Collection" and you’ll spot a beard shaped like a question mark. The joke’s the whole point: he turned the stiff formality of 19th-century portrait prints into something playful, almost sneaky. If you like when art winks back at you, grab that print and hunt for the beard’s secret shape.

Works by W Hawkins

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.