drawing
- Museum number
- 1992,0125.25
- Description
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A mother and daughter admiring the statue of Demeter in the British Museum Mausoleum room; the statue sits on a plinth inscribed "DEMETER", a corridor with sculptures beyond r
Watercolour
- Production date
- 1869-1884
- Dimensions
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Height: 158 millimetres
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Width: 233 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Kilburne worked for the Dalziel brothers for five years, and specialized in scenes set in the eighteenth century for their illustrated books. This, however, is a contemporary scene and an accurate record of the British Museum mausoleum room as it appeared between 1869-1884. This room housed the sculptures recovered from the excavations of the Mausoleum of Halicarnasus, as well as the pieces found at the sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cnidus in 1858. See Ian Jenkins, 'Archaeologists and Aesthetes', 1992.
A larger version of this watercolour (15 1/4 x 10 inches), signed, but not dated, was with Christopher Wood Gallery (10 Bury St, London SW1) in January 2004. A descendant of the artist worked at the Gallery and stated that the models were the artist's wife and daughter and appear in other works by him.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1995-6 Nov-Apr, BM, Recent Acquisitions (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Acquisition notes
- Sale of Victorian pictures, drawings and watercolours, Christie's, 19.xii.1991/26, purchased through Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd, 38, Bury St, St James, London SW1Y 6BB
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0125.25