The Beginning of an Event in History: the Tolpuddle Martyrs
This is a finished composition sketch for an unexecuted mural that was later painted as a canvas painting (1943, private collection). At least two other preparatory drawings exist and are included in this catalogue, both in private collections.
Date: c. 1937-8
Inscriptions: None
Tags: Figures, Agricultural, Pencil, Watercolour, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil and watercolour on paper
Height (mm): 559
Width (mm): 800
Frame height (mm): 805
Frame width (mm): 1035
Location: Tate N05550
Exhibition History: NEAC winter 1943 (78); Reading 1964 (131); RA 1973 (279); FAS 1974 (69)
Provenance: Purchased from the Leicester Galleries by John Rothenstein (1901-1992) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1943 (for £31/10/); presented to Tate 1944
Literature: Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Tate Gallery Catalogue: Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II pp. 657-8; Gough 2024 pp. 235-7, illus. p. 236
Date: c. 1937-8
Inscriptions: None
Tags: Figures, Agricultural, Pencil, Watercolour, Works on paper
Medium: Pencil and watercolour on paper
Height (mm): 559
Width (mm): 800
Frame height (mm): 805
Frame width (mm): 1035
Location: Tate N05550
Exhibition History: NEAC winter 1943 (78); Reading 1964 (131); RA 1973 (279); FAS 1974 (69)
Provenance: Purchased from the Leicester Galleries by John Rothenstein (1901-1992) for the Contemporary Art Society, 1943 (for £31/10/); presented to Tate 1944
Literature: Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Tate Gallery Catalogue: Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II pp. 657-8; Gough 2024 pp. 235-7, illus. p. 236