- Museum number
- 1958,0712.3026.1-63
- Title
- Object: Mindiana. Life of Godfrey Mind. Commonly called the Raphael of Cats.
- Description
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Album entitled 'Mindiana, Life of Godfrey Mind commonly called the Raphael of Cats'; including sheep, rabbits, dancing bear and keeper, cats, deer, cows, children playing games and a self- portrait of the artist
Album containing 63 inlaid drawings by Gottfried Mind, with 11 pages of biography, and table of contents; bound in green leather, with blind and gold stamping, and the title on the spine
Graphite, except for a few watercolour and intaglio prints (see description below):
1) Four sheeps on a meadow
2) A rural scene; A woman seated on a tree trunck with four children, and a herd of goats and sheeps
3) A rabbit, running to the left
4) Six dogs in different poses
5) A man seen from behind, holding a bunch of branches on his right shoulder
6) A man pulling a carriage loaded with wood, with a child walking besides him, and another pushing the carriage
7) A tamer with a bear standing on the hindpaws
8) Three eating rabbits
9) Three lying rabbits
10) A boy carrying a rabbit
11) A lying rabbit, to the left
12) Two bears in the branches of a tree
13) A bear, walking to the right
14) A standing bear, to the left
15) A standing bear, to the right
16) A seated bear, to the left
17) A lying beast of prey, to the left
18) A cat seated on a cushion, in front of a wall
19) Two kittens, one of them looking at the viewer whilst the other is sleeping
20) A standing cat, drinking from a bowl, to the left
21) A seated dog, to the left, the head turned upwards
22) A cat en face
23) A lying cat
24) Two lying cats, to the left
25) A cat, to the left, with two kittens (dated '1813.')
26) A cat, to the left
27) Four rabbits, eating dandelion
28) A lying rabbit, to the right
29) A creeping cat, to the left
30) A creeping cat, to the left
31) A cat walking to the right, with two kittens
32) A eating rabbit, to the left
33) A seated cat, to the right, the head turned to the left, with two kittens
34) A rural interior with five cats hunting mouses (preparatory drawing for 1958,0712.2148?)
35) A standing cat, to the right, with three kittens
36) A female deer standing at a water next to trees, and a male deer next to a tree in the distance (watercolour)
37) A standing female deer, turned to the left, the head turned to the right
38) A grazing male deer from behind
39) A lying male deer, to the right
40) A grazing male deer, to the left, with trees in the background
41) A roaring male dear, to the left, and a grazing young deer
42) A grazing cow from behind, a lying cow en face, and a standing sheep, to the right
43) A standing calf, to the left
44) A capricorn, to the right, with mountains in the background
45) A rural scene with children playing on a meadow, and two cottages in the background
46) Two children and a young donkey (watercolour, signed 'G. Mind.')
47) Portrait of a woman with a hat; bust length, en face
48) A standing woman, with a jug
49) See description in 1958,0712.2160 (etching, with hand-colouring)
50) Three cats, the one on the left is sleeping whilst the one in the middle is creeping to the left
51) A group of seven children playing 'blind cow'
52) A group of nine children playing in a farmyard
53) A group of eight boys playing with marbles, and a boy with a basket on his back to the left, and a boy playing with a hoop to the right (etching and aquatint, with hand-colouring)
54) A cat and three kittens (aquatint, with hand-colouring)
55) A cat playing with a folded object
56) Portrait of Gottfried Mind; in profile and bust-length, turned to the left
57) A standing cat, turned to the left, looking towards the viewer
58) 'A lying cat'
59) 'A lying cat, to the right'
60) A cat lying on a stone, turned to the right, with the head turned downwards
61) Playing children, and a woman with a child in her arms (etching and aquatint, with hand-colouring)
62) A boy with a stick and a bag, and a dog behind him
63) Four boys with a toy gun and a hoop (aquatint, with hand-colouring)
- Production date
- 1783-1814
- Dimensions
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Height: 240 millimetres (album)
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Height: 170 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Width: 230 millimetres
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Width: 350 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This album contains 58 drawings by Mind, including a self-portrait in graphite (inv.no 1958,0712.3026.56), and five prints, (inv. nos. 1958,0712.3026.49, 53, 54, 61, and 63) which are all hand-coloured prints after Mind's designs.
Many series of hand-coloured aquatints and lithographs after Mind's drawings were made after his death, see 1958,0712.3012.1-23, 1958,0712.3012.1-25 and 1958,0712.3012.1-21 (one of these albums also contains prints by Mind's master, Sigmund Freudenberger, hand-coloured by Mind - as mentioned here in Fairholme's account of Mind's life) and mounted German Roy XVIIIc.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
UNDER THE TERMS OF THE BEQUEST, NONE OF THE PRINTS OR DRAWINGS BEQUEATHED BY R. W. LLOYD MAY BE LENT OUTSIDE THE BRITISH MUSEUM (Registration Numbers 1958,0712.318 to 3149).
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1958,0712.3026.1-63