Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/arthur-boyd-houghton-278" aria-label="More by Arthur Boyd Houghton" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Arthur Boyd Houghton</a>
Punch and Judy
Purchased 1922
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
architecture
audience
awning
basket
boy
child
children
clothing and personal items
crowd
England
groups
hat
hat, bonnet
hat, cap
leisure and pastimes
London - non-specific
looking / watching
man
military
muff
music and entertainment
objects
people
places
puppet show
smiling
soldier
standing
street
townscapes / man-made features
UK countries and regions
UK London
vessels and containers
woman
work and occupations
<p>A large crowd gathers round a Punch and Judy show on the streets of London. Houghton pays less attention to the entertainment, which is barely visible, than to the variety of people in the audience. For example, the smartly-dressed child standing in the foreground contrasts with the distracted street urchin next to her. The man in uniform is a lamplighter who appeared each evening to light the streets.Houghton was known for his small oil paintings of vivid scenes of life in Victorian London, which were partly inspired by the eighteenth-century artist, William Hogarth.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
1 August 2005 – 2 March 2008
2008-03-02
1 August 2007
2007-08-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-08-01
Victorian Paintings of Modern Life
Collection based display
Punch and Judy
support: 356 × 254 mm
frame: 495 × 394 × 47 mm
Purchased 1922
<p>A large crowd gathers round a Punch and Judy show on the streets of London. Houghton pays less attention to the entertainment, which is barely visible, than to the variety of people in the audience. For example, the smartly-dressed child standing in the foreground contrasts with the distracted street urchin next to her. The man in uniform is a lamplighter who appeared each evening to light the streets.Houghton was known for his small oil paintings of vivid scenes of life in Victorian London, which were partly inspired by the eighteenth-century artist, William Hogarth.</p>

Display caption
2007-07-10T00:00:00
display-caption
DISPLAY_CAPTION
actions: expressive actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults architecture audience awning basket boy child children clothing and personal items crowd England groups hat hat, bonnet hat, cap leisure and pastimes London - non-specific looking / watching man military muff music and entertainment objects people places puppet show smiling soldier standing street townscapes / man-made features UK countries and regions UK London vessels and containers woman work and occupations