drawing
- Museum number
- 2019,7015.510
- Description
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A design for a pediment; a triangular form in which a seated draped male and female figures are elevated at the centre; they are surrounded by figures including two women offering food (left) and a group harvesting (right); a small square sketched upper right.
Verso; a fragment of a drawing of clothing.
Pencil on wove paper
- Production date
- 1840-1890
- Dimensions
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Height: 87 millimetres
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Width: 313 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2019
- Acquisition notes
- One of nine Pickersgill drawings that John Christian purchased from Abbott & Holder (2019.7015.505-2019.7015.513). He retained the invoice dated 07.08.13 which provides the following information:
"Frederick Pickersgill R.A.
Pencil Studies
84774/8
" /84
" /7
84774/15
94 [crossed through]
45
102
101
69
19"
With prices.
This drawing is annotated verso:
P46 84774/15, P11.
Christian's notes on these drawings provide the following information.
"FR Pickersgill drawings (unmounted)
For a long time I had intended to buy some examples of Pickersgill's landscape drawings to put with the three figure subjects (one watercolour, two pencil) that I had from A&H some years ago. On 7th August I bought three of these landscapes together with another six sketches for figure subjects. The latter were rather slight, but nice working drawings nonetheless. They show Pickersgill working from a Flaxman-like style to a more Pre-Raphaelite idiom. I wonder if the pediment shaped design was ever seriously intended for sculpture.
This gives me twelve Pickersgill drawings in all, a decent group, I acatually took away seven figure subjects on 7th August, but returned one when I went to pay the balance on 27th. A sketch of two lovers seated and reading a book, (Paolo and Francesca?) it was tender but very slight, and I felt I had spent enough on this rather recondite subject.
+ Imogen discovered in the cave of Belarius, Cymbeline, Act III, Sc 6."
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.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2019,7015.510