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Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliffe at Wuthering Heights
Purchased 1941
actions: postures and motions
animals: mammals
basket
boy
Brontë, Emily, ‘Wuthering Heights’, 1847
cat
chair
characters
children
dog - non-specific
domestic
Earnshaw, Catherine
fire, open
fireplace
firewood
furnishings
girl
Heathcliff
heating and lighting
interiors
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
living room
natural phenomena
objects
people
shadow
sitting
standing
vessels and containers
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Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliffe at Wuthering Heights
support: 559 × 749 mm
Purchased 1941
<p><b>N05273</b> CATHERINE EARNSHAW AND HEATHCLIFF AT WUTHERING HEIGHTS <i>c.</i> 1910–11
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Pen and ink, 22×29 1/2 (56×75); the head of the boy has been inserted on a separate piece of paper.
<br/>Purchased from the Redfern Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1941.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Redfern Gallery, May 1941 (50).</p>
<p>In 1899, shortly after her marriage and before settling in her present house, the artist rented for a few months an old sixteenth-century house Great Tomkins on Upminster Common and made a number of sketches of it. This house has since been modernized, but at the time it gave her the feeling of <i>Wuthering Heights</i> by Emily Brontë and she started her series of illustrations, using the sketches for the setting. This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> probably dates from about 1910 and the girl is taken from the same model as <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/clarke-hall-catherine-earnshaw-walking-n05131" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05131</span></a>. A <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/charcoal" title="Glossary definition for 'Charcoal'"><span>charcoal</span></a> study for 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/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> is reproduced in Wilenski, 1924, pl.2. The artist first exhibited ‘Suggestions for illustrations to <i>Wuthering Heights</i>’ at the Friday Club, Alpine Club Gallery, in June 1910, but the drawings range over a long period, from about 1900 till after 1924. According to Wilenski, ‘They are not illustrations in the ordinary sense of the word, for they take small heed of the letter of the book. They are rather a pictorial equivalent of that terse and wind-swept drama; and the same is true of the later illustrations to the same book, which Mrs Clarke Hall has produced at varying intervals - for the artist has returned again and again to the strange atmosphere created by a kindred spirit’ (<i>op. cit.</i>, p.10). For further illustrations to <i>Wuthering Heights</i> see <span>N05131</span>, <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/clarke-hall-heathcliffe-supporting-catherine-n05418" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05418</span></a>–24 and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/clarke-hall-catherine-leaning-on-a-wall-a01064" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A01064</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/clarke-hall-catherine-and-heathcliffe-sitting-in-a-field-a01073" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A01073</span></a>. There is also an <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/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etching</span></a> of this subject.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions animals: mammals basket boy Brontë, Emily, ‘Wuthering Heights’, 1847 cat chair characters children dog - non-specific domestic Earnshaw, Catherine fire, open fireplace firewood furnishings girl Heathcliff heating and lighting interiors literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) living room natural phenomena objects people shadow sitting standing vessels and containers