drawing
- Museum number
- 2021,7021.2
- Title
- Perfect Happiness
- Description
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Close up of hands lifting a glass jelly mould off a white mound on a decorative plate. 2020
Graphite on drafting film
- Production date
- 2020
- Dimensions
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Height: 70 millimetres (image)
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Height: 140 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 55 millimetres (image)
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Width: 200 millimetres (sheet)
- Curator's comments
- This group of drawings (2021,7021.1, 2021,7021.2 and 2021,7021.3) was inspired by scenes from the trailer for the film 'Emma.' (directed by Autumn de Wilde, 2020). In this scene a girl's hands are shown raising a jelly mould from a plate on which they have shaped a mound of flour ready to play a version of the regency parlour game 'bullet pudding' (described in a letter from Jane Austen's niece Fanny Austen Knight as being played by the Austen family at Christmas; see Jane Struthers, The Book of Christmas, Ebury Press, 2012).
- Location
- On display (British Roy PX)
- Exhibition history
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Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, 13 April-15 May 2021, 'Marie Harnett: What Was My Own', no. 2
2023, 30 March - 10 Sept, London, BM, Gallery 90, 'New acquisitions: Paul Bril to Wendy Red Star'
- Acquisition date
- 26 May 2021
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2021,7021.2
