Wood engraving on paper
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Shadow and Substance engraved by Dalziel Brothers
Presented by Gilbert Dalziel 1924
adults
fishing
group
groups
landscape
leisure and pastimes
natural phenomena
people
reflection
river
sport
water: inland
woman
wooded
<p>This is one of eighteen designs Pinwell made for a book of verse called Wayside Posies. The haunting image shows a woman staring at her reflection in a pond. Beside her sit two women whose skirts seem to have been absorbed by the landscape. All three women appear displaced from everyday time and place, their faces downcast.</p><p>The anonymous poem Shadow and Substance which accompanies this design is narrated by a suitor who, if his passion is rejected by ‘Nell’, threatens to commit ‘sweet slaughter’ by drowning himself while ‘embracing her shade in the water’ where she fishes.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2004</em></p>
paper print wood engraving
9 August 2004 – 8 August 2005
2005-08-08
1 March 2004
2004-03-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-08-09
19th Century Illustration
Collection based display
Shadow and Substance, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers
image: 159 × 127 mm
Presented by Gilbert Dalziel 1924
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<span class="text7">This is one of eighteen designs Pinwell made for a book      of verse called </span><span class="tItalic">Wayside </span><span class="text15">Posies</span><span class="text16">. The haunting image shows a      woman</span><span class="text7"> staring at her reflection in a pond.      Beside </span><span class="text17">her sit two women whose skirts seem  to      have been</span><span class="text7"> absorbed by the landscape.  All      three women appear displaced  from everyday time and place, their  faces      downcast. </span>
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<span class="text7">The anonymous poem </span><span class="tItalic">Shadow      and </span><span class="text18">Substance</span><span class="text17"> which      accompanies this design</span><span class="text7"> is narrated by a      suitor who, if his passion is rejected by ‘Nell’, threatens to      commit ‘sweet slaughter’ by drowning himself while      ‘embracing her shade in the water’ where she fishes. </span>
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adults fishing group groups landscape leisure and pastimes natural phenomena people reflection river sport water: inland woman wooded