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Description: | 61.0 x 78.2 x 9.0 signed on board in black paint b. r. "Enoch Arden / Painted 1866 / W McTaggart RSA"; typed label on verso of frame from J.B. Bennett & Sons Ltd, Glasgow (fine art dealers); printed label on verso of frame "71 Enoch Arden 22 1/2 x 15 1/2 / "Here on this beach, a hundred years ago, / Three children of three houses, Annie Lee, / The prettiest little girl in the port, / And Philip Rae, the miller's own son, / And Enoch Arden, a rough sailor's lad, / Made orphan by a winter shipwreck, played, / ... / And built their castles of dissolving sand, / to watch them overflowed ... / Vide 'Enoch Arden" CRE McTAGGART, William; (Scottish; 1835-1910) Enoch Arden, a watercolour study for a painting whose present whereabouts is unknown, is named after a poem by Lord Tennyson. Illustrating a critical moment in McTaggart's early career, it belongs to a group of works inspired by the joys and sorrows of the common people as enshrined in old Scottish ballads, and occasionally in contemporary poetry. In a letter to William Simpson dated 25 March 1866, the painter Chalmers wrote 'I went out last night to see McTaggart's picture (Enoch Arden), I thought it very fine -I also went out today to see it in daylight and the impression which it made on me last night was much stronger when I saw it today ... In composition it is decidedly the finest - it is also beautiful in colour and there is a quiet sentiment and mysterious magnitude in the long stretch of sand and calm bit of ocean, the latter melting imperceptibly into the sky - which is perfectly splendid-...' (Errington, pp. 39-40) | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | CHILD : GENRE : LANDSCAPE : SCOTTISH : SEA : BOAT : FISHING : NET : SAND CASTLE : PLAYING : ASPECTS OF SCOTTISH ART : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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