drawing
- Museum number
- 2003,0601.19
- Description
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Blue cart with two passengers and a dog in foreground approaching a smoking bonfire of autumnal leaves l, thickly applied gouache and gestural drawing. 1973
Gouache and charcoal
- Production date
- 1973
- Dimensions
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Height: 387 millimetres
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Width: 559 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Hilton kept his childhood toy horse and cart by him throughout his life, and it often recurs in his paintings. Brown viewed it as a metaphor for the journey of life toward death. See 2003-6-1-1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1980 Feb and tour, Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Roger Hilton, no. 6
1982, Sakastoon Gallery and Conservation Corporation, Roger Hilton
2003/4 Dec-April, BM, Three Great Gifts: The David Brown Bequest
2006/7 Oct-Jan, St. Ives, Tate, 'Roger Hilton'
2009/10 Nov-Jan, Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, Roger Hilton
- Acquisition date
- 2003
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2003,0601.19
