drawing;
sketch-book
- Museum number
- 1973,1208.83.1-45
- Description
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Sketchbook in a BM binding containing 45 numbered leaves (and an unnumbered fly-leaf), repaired with additional fly-leaves, with historical and literary compositions and figure studies, in most cases with several sketches to a leaf, on the recto and verso, often with several versions of a theme; subjects include studies for 'Macbeth', 'The Faerie Queene', 'The Lady of the Lake', Wordsworth's lyrical ballad 'The Thorn', 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel...', 'Celadon & Amilia...', Thompson's 'Seasons', 'The first Daisy', 'The Twins', 'Reaper...', 'The Maid of Orleans', 'The Miser and his housekeeper', 'Christ lamenting over Jerusalem', 'Intreaty [sic] and Rejection', 'The Conversion of St Paul', 'The Conversion of the Centurion', 'Mercy pleading for Vanquished Youth', 'Euridice widow of Amintas...', 'The Mother of Timoleon expressing her indignation against him...', Collins's 'Ode to Mercy', 'Liberty tearing the veils of ignorance and superstition from his eyes' (theme from Erasmus Darwin's 'The Botanic Garden, Part I)
Most sketches in pen and brown ink over graphite, some also with red chalk or brown or grey wash; others in graphite and one in black chalk
- Production date
- 1791-1822
- Dimensions
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Height: 382 millimetres
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Width: 245 millimetres (covers)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The first two leaves almost cut out. See the Register for a description of individual leaves, and Kim Sloan, "William Artaud: history painter and 'violent democrat'", Burlington Magazine, February 1995, pp.76-85.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1999/2000 Nov-Feb, Newcastle, Laing AG, Art Treasures of North
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Faerie Queene
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Associated Title: Macbeth
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Associated Title: The Thorn
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Associated Title: Seasons
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Associated Title: The Botanic Garden
- Acquisition date
- 1973
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1973,1208.83.1-45
