drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1939,0513.9
- Description
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Morris fishing in a punt, from an album of 60 caricature drawings; sitting with a rod under his arm and reading a copy of 'The Earthly Paradise', the fish laughing and rolling around in the water. 1871
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1871
- Dimensions
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Height: 182 millimetres
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Width: 110 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See Curator's Comment and Provenance to 1939,0513.1.
Gere 1994
In a letter to William Bell Scott dated "Kelmscott 15 September", Rossetti describes Morris's return from Iceland and continues: "One day he was here he went for a day's fishing in our punt, the chief result of which was a sketch I made, inscribed as follows [as above, with "Skald", the ancient Icelandic word for poet, substituted for "Morris"]".
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1994/5 Sep-Jan, BM, Pre-Raphaelite Drawings, no. 31
1996 May-Sep, London, V&A, 'William Morris', no. A.22
1997 March-May, Kyoto, Nat Mus Mod Art, W Morris
1997 May-July, Tokyo, Nat Mus Mod Art, W Morris
1997 July-Aug, Nagoya, Aichi Pref Mus, W Morris
2010 June-Oct, Bowness/Windermere, Blackwell, William Morris
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1939,0513.9
