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Eve Deluge
Presented by Miss Alice Boyd 1891
actions: expressive
actions: processes and functions
adults
altar
animals: birds
animals: features
animals: mammals
architecture
balcony
Bible: Old Testament
boat - non-specific
brazier
clothing and personal items
cloud
column
complacency
courtier
drinking
eating and drinking
embracing
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
evening
features
female
fine arts and music
fur
fur / hide
goblet
group
groups
heating and lighting
hedonism
instrument, harp
jewellery
kitchen
leisure and pastimes
leopard
lion
looking / watching
man
Noah’s Ark
nudes
objects
palace
people
prince
religion and belief
religious and ceremonial
residential
royalty and social rank
society
staff
stork
times of the day
transport: water
weather
woman
work and occupations
<p>William Bell Scott was the son of a Scottish engraver. He came to London in the 1830s where he practised as an engraver and also exhibited pictures. He had close contact with the Pre-Raphaelites and their circle, chiefly through his friendship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In this picture he contrasts the debauched eastern prince and his court with Noah and his family who, only too aware of the significance of the ominous cloud in the sky, are entering the Ark.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
12 July 2003 – 15 August 2004
2004-08-15
12 July 2003 – 28 September 2003
2003-09-28
2003-07-12
Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth, Australia)
25 October 2003 – 15 February 2004
2004-02-15
2003-10-25
Dunedin Public Art Gallery (Dunedin, New Zealand)
http://www.dunedin.art.museum
14 May 2004 – 15 August 2004
2004-08-15
2004-05-14
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
2003-07-12
The Pre-Raphaelite Dream: Paintings and Drawings from the Tate Collection
Tate partnerships & programmes
10 August 2007 – 4 October 2010
2010-10-04
10 August 2007 – 4 October 2010
2010-10-04
2007-08-10
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2007-08-10
Pre-Raphaelites and Painters of the Ideal
Collection based display
12 September 2012 – 31 January 2014
2014-01-31
25 January 2014 – 6 April 2014
2014-04-06
2014-01-25
Mori Arts Centre (Tokyo, Japan)
19 April 2014 – 13 July 2014
2014-07-13
2014-04-19
Palazzo Chiablese (Turin, Italy)
2012-09-12
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
Exhibition
17 February 2013 – 31 August 2014
2014-08-31
25 January 2014 – 6 April 2014
2014-04-06
2014-01-25
Mori Arts Centre (Tokyo, Japan)
19 April 2014 – 13 July 2014
2014-07-13
2014-04-19
Palazzo Chiablese (Turin, Italy)
2013-02-17
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
Loan-out
The Eve of the Deluge
support: 324 × 445 mm
frame: 620 × 745 × 115 mm
Presented by Miss Alice Boyd 1891
<p>William Bell Scott was the son of a Scottish  <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraver</span></a>. He came to London in the 1830s where he  practised as an engraver and also exhibited  pictures. He had close contact with the  <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/pre-raphaelite" title="Glossary definition for 'Pre-Raphaelite'"><span>Pre-Raphaelites</span></a> and their circle, chiefly through  his friendship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In  this picture he contrasts the debauched eastern  prince and his court with Noah and his family who,  only too aware of the significance of the ominous  cloud in the sky, are entering the Ark.</p>
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actions: expressive actions: processes and functions adults altar animals: birds animals: features animals: mammals architecture balcony Bible: Old Testament boat - non-specific brazier clothing and personal items cloud column complacency courtier drinking eating and drinking embracing emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas evening features female fine arts and music fur fur / hide goblet group groups heating and lighting hedonism instrument, harp jewellery kitchen leisure and pastimes leopard lion looking / watching man Noah’s Ark nudes objects palace people prince religion and belief religious and ceremonial residential royalty and social rank society staff stork times of the day transport: water weather woman work and occupations