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Description: | mark, incised, name carved twice into wood in capitals, T. TWEEDY
Carved wooden statuette of Billy Purvis 'the Jester of the North'. It has a rectangular base which has cut off corners and is painted green. The figure is painted predominantly buff, brown, ochre and red. He wears striped hose pantaloons, puff-sleeved jerkin and shirt with deep collar and ties with tassels. He has a skull cap on his head from which emerges a top note of hair and he has red make-up on his face. It is cracked across one shoulder and chipped in places. Believed to be carved by Gerrard Robinson of Forth Banks, Newcastle whilst working at the workshop of Thomas Tweedy in Grainger Street, Newcastle.
Material: wood
View of whole sculpture from the front.
View of whole of Billy Purvis carving from Behind | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.socialhistory.374788 | Go to resource |
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