Line engraving on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Bride
Presented by S. Calvert 1912
actions: postures and motions
adults
agriculture and fishing
agriculture, gardening & fishing
animals: mammals
architecture
astronomy
beehive
Beulah
crook
emotions, concepts and ideas
eroticism
female
fence
fertility
food and drink
fruit, grape
herdsman / herdswoman
herdsman / herdswoman, shepherd / shepherdess
landscape
male
man
marriage
mythical, religious, fictional
nudes
objects
path
people
places
plants and flowers
religion and belief
religious
river
salvation
sex and relationships
sheep
sinner - sheep
society
soul
soul - bride
star
symbols and personifications
townscapes / man-made features
universal concepts
universal religious imagery
valley
vine
walking
water: inland
woman
wooded
work and occupations
<p>This landscape explores the idea of the ‘Soul’ as a ‘Bride’ seeking God on the difficult path to spiritual salvation. Calvert's landscapes were partly inspired by the countryside around Shoreham, Kent. They also drew on the pastoral visions depicted by the artist and poet William Blake. Blake often evoked the biblical Beulah in his work, a name given to Palestine in the Old Testament which translates from Hebrew as ‘bride’ or ‘married’. For Blake, Beulah was equated with dreams, poetic inspiration and the subconscious.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2024</em></p>
paper print line engraving
15 October 2001 – 7 July 2002
2002-07-07
15 October 2001 – 7 July 2002
2002-07-07
2001-10-15
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-10-15
William Blake and His Followers
Collection based display
1 November 2011 – 21 October 2012
2012-10-21
3 July 2012 – 21 October 2012
2012-10-21
2012-07-03
Fundació “la Caixa” (Madrid, Spain)
2011-11-01
Blake Exhibition
Loan-out
13 May 2013 – 6 October 2013
2013-10-06
13 May 2013 – 6 October 2013
2013-10-06
2013-05-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-05-13
Landscape in Blake
Collection based display
12 August 2019 – 17 March 2020
2020-03-17
12 August 2019
2019-08-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2019-08-12
Blake Followers
Collection based display
29 October 2024 – 30 September 2025
2025-09-30
30 October 2024 – 2 February 2025
2025-02-02
2024-10-30
Reggia di Venaria Reale (Turin, Italy)
1 September 2025 – 31 January 2026
2026-01-31
2025-09-01
Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)
1 March 2026 – 31 August 2026
2026-08-31
2026-03-01
External
2024-10-29
William Blake and the Age of Romantic Fantasy: British Art & Imagination
Loan-out
The Bride
image: 76 × 127 mm
support: 106 × 158 mm
Presented by S. Calvert 1912
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<p>This landscape explores the idea of the ‘Soul’ as a ‘Bride’ seeking God on the difficult path to spiritual salvation. Calvert's landscapes were partly inspired by the countryside around Shoreham, Kent. They also drew on the pastoral visions depicted by the artist and poet William Blake. Blake often evoked the biblical Beulah in his work, a name given to Palestine in the Old Testament which translates from Hebrew as ‘bride’ or ‘married’. For Blake, Beulah was equated with dreams, poetic inspiration and the subconscious. </p>
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actions: postures and motions adults agriculture and fishing agriculture, gardening & fishing animals: mammals architecture astronomy beehive Beulah crook emotions, concepts and ideas eroticism female fence fertility food and drink fruit, grape herdsman / herdswoman herdsman / herdswoman, shepherd / shepherdess landscape male man marriage mythical, religious, fictional nudes objects path people places plants and flowers religion and belief religious river salvation sex and relationships sheep sinner - sheep society soul soul - bride star symbols and personifications townscapes / man-made features universal concepts universal religious imagery valley vine walking water: inland woman wooded work and occupations