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Pencil Drawing - The Lady of Shalott
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Basic Information | Accession Number: | 1986P38 |
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Collection: | Fine Art Prints and Drawings |
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Date: | 1888 - 1888 |
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Maker Information | Artist: | Arthur Joseph Gaskin - View biography for Arthur Joseph Gaskin |
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Notes | Although born in Birmingham, Arthur Gaskin was brought up in Wolverhampton. The family returned to Birmingham in about 1879, and in 1883 Gaskin entered the School of Art; within two years he was appointed an Assistant Master.
The Lady of Shalott is among his earliest surviving works. It demonstrates the strength of influence exerted by Pre-Raphaelitism, extending back to the famous 1857 illustrations to Tennyson's poems in the Moxen edition, although in 1888 Holman Hunt was still at work on the celebrated large painting of the same subject.
| Purchased from Sotheby's with assistance from the MGC/VandA Purchase Grant Fund, 1986. |
Further Information | Production Period: | 19th century |
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School/Style: | Arts and Crafts |
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Medium: | Pencil on white wove paper. |
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Material(s): | Wove paper |
Associated People | | Dimensions | Height: | 300 mm |
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Width: | 246 mm |
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