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A TAVERN BRAWL, BY JOHN GILBERT,...EXHIBITION OF THE SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS, 1864. CREATOR: W THOMAS.
A Tavern Brawl, by John Gilbert, in the Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1864. Engraving of a painting. 'Such brawls were common in that ruder and more licentious, though vigorous and glorious, age...the duello was considered a most honourable, equitable, and gentleman-like mode of liquidating debts, proving wrong to be right, and wiping ail stain, however black, from the criminal. Naturally, when hot-blooded young gallants, professional gamesters and bravoes, swaggering swashbucklers, and lawless roisterers of all kinds...met at the taverns...when the sack and canary had freely circulated and women were toasted, and cards were played, then the disputes and difficulties which would be sure to arise would certainly be settled on the spot...by the convenient arbitration of the sword. The arbitration would also, though the question might be most trivial, not unfrequently have, for one at least of the parties to it, a fatal conclusion...And such, doubtless, is the fate of the handsome young fellow in our picture, who now lies weltering in his blood...His young adversary - perhaps a schoolfellow and friend, perhaps a mere tavern acquaintance...looks on, cooled, saddened, even regretful, as he wipes the ensanguined blade'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. A Tavern Brawl, by John Gilbert,...Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1864. Creator: W Thomas. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION: STAINED-GLASS WINDOW BY MESSRS. CHANCE BROTHERS..., 1862. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
The International Exhibition: stained-glass window by Messrs. Chance Brothers, of Birmingham: "Robin Hood's Last Shot", 1862. Designed by Sebastian Evans. 'Robin, sorestricken with fever, betook himself...to the Prioress of Kirkleys to be let blood...[She] thought fit to bleed Robin to death...[Robin asked] Little John to give him his bow and arrow...bidding Little John bury him wherever he finds the arrow-" And straightway thereafter he died."...The moment chosen by the artist is that when Robin is just drawing his last arrow, the whole energies of the dying man gathered up for this last trial of his strength. Little John is seen gazing wistfully out of the window in the direction which the arrow is to take, while the amiable Prioress is seen...pointing out to Sir Roger of Doncaster the spot in the arm where she has bled her kinsman...The basin and lancet by the side of Robin; the story of Jael and Sisera, indicated on the tapestry at the back of the Prioress...the figure of St. Sebastain wounded with arrows, which finds a place above one of the shafts (a reference both to the name of the artist and the subject he treats), are all contrived so as to heighten the effect of the story told in the principal figures'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862. The International Exhibition: stained-glass window by Messrs. Chance Brothers..., 1862. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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SUSPENSE, BY E. LANDSEER, R.A., IN THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM, 1861. ENGRAVING FROM A PAINTING. 'THIS PICTURE, ADMIRABLE AS A SPECIMEN OF DOG-PAINTING - A BRANCH OF ART IN WHICH SIR E. LANDSEER HAS NO RIVAL AMONGST CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS - IS ALSO REMARKA
Suspense, by E. Landseer, R.A., in the South Kensington Museum, 1861. Creator: W Thomas. Suspense, by E. Landseer, R.A., in the South Kensington Museum, 1861. Engraving from a painting. 'This picture, admirable as a specimen of dog-painting - a branch of art in which Sir E. Landseer has no rival amongst contemporary painters - is also remarkable for the ingenious manner in which it is made to draw upon the imagination, and, with all its integral quiet simplicity, to suggest a tragic incident. A noble bloodhound is represented watching at a closed door for the return of his master, a knight of the olden time, who, after a bloody encounter with some dire foe, has been hastily removed, wounded (perhaps mortally), from the apartment. The steel gauntlets on the table, the tom eagle-plume lying on the floor, and, further still, the stains of fresh blood which disfigure the surface of the latter, are plainly indicative of the quality of the absent hero and the nature of the adventure in which he has been engaged, and the clang and terror of which still seem to fill the air. This picture was exhibited at the British Institution in 1834. Unfortunately, the texture of the painting has failed in parts, through the use of asphaltum. It forms part of the Sheepshanks Collection exhibited at the South Kensington Museum'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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