Ink on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-roddam-spencer-stanhope-519" aria-label="More by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">John Roddam Spencer Stanhope</a>
Thoughts Past
Presented by Mrs Evelyn de Morgan 1917
actions: postures and motions
adults
architecture
boat, barge
boat, sailing
clothing and personal items
contemplation
domestic
dressing gown
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
features
interior - non-specific
interiors
memory
objects
people
prostitution
river
sex and relationships
society
standing
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
water: inland
window
woman
<p>Stanhope’s drawing, for which the Pre-Raphaelite model Fanny Cornforth posed in Stanhope’s studio, shows a ‘fallen’ woman at a window overlooking the Thames at Blackfriars . In the manner of so-called ‘problem women’ pictures of the time her eyes are raised but, unusually, she wears a loose modern gown that partially reveals her body. In his final oil version of the scene (also in Tate’s collection) Stanhope directed the woman’s gaze out at viewers, implicating them in the drama.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2013</em></p>
paper unique ink
23 May 2007 – 30 September 2007
2007-09-30
23 May 2007 – 30 September 2007
2007-09-30
2007-05-23
Cannon Hall Museum (Barnsley, UK)
2007-05-23
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and Evelyn de Morgan
Loan-out
29 January 2011 – 4 September 2011
2011-09-04
29 January 2011 – 15 May 2011
2011-05-15
2011-01-29
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (Birmingham, UK)
http://www.bmag.org.uk
17 June 2011 – 4 September 2011
2011-09-04
2011-06-17
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
2011-01-29
The Poetry of Drawing: Pre-Raphelite Designs, Studies and Watercolours.
Loan-out
3 May 2013 – 29 March 2015
2015-03-29
3 May 2013 – 29 March 2015
2015-03-29
2013-05-03
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-05-03
Gallery 8
Collection based display
Study for ‘Thoughts of the Past’
support: 610 × 318 mm
Presented by Mrs Evelyn de Morgan 1917
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<p>Stanhope’s drawing, for which the Pre-Raphaelite model Fanny Cornforth posed in Stanhope’s studio, shows a ‘fallen’ woman at a window overlooking the Thames at Blackfriars . In the manner of so-called ‘problem women’ pictures of the time her eyes are raised but, unusually, she wears a loose modern gown that partially reveals her body. In his final oil version of the scene (also in Tate’s collection) Stanhope directed the woman’s gaze out at viewers, implicating them in the drama.</p>
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actions: postures and motions adults architecture boat, barge boat, sailing clothing and personal items contemplation domestic dressing gown emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas features interior - non-specific interiors memory objects people prostitution river sex and relationships society standing townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features transport: water water: inland window woman