Ink on paper
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Greenery Yallery
Presented by the artist 1942
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
bench
bowl
caricature
cartoon / comic strip
chair
clothing and personal items
curtain
design
domestic
emotions, concepts and ideas
fan
fine art and design, named works
fine arts and music
fireplace
formal qualities
furnishings
gesticulating
heating and lighting
humour
individuals: male
interiors
kitchen
Lancaster, Osbert, ‘Homes Sweet Homes’
lifestyle and culture
listening
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
living room
man
Morris, William, design
named individuals
objects
painting
people
plants and flowers
plate
portraits
satire
screen
sitting
social comment
society
standing
sunflower
table
table cloth
talking
universal concepts
vase
vessels and containers
wallpaper
Wilde, Oscar
woman
paper unique ink
Greenery Yallery
support: 356 × 254 mm
Presented by the artist 1942
<p><b>N05379</b> GREENERY YALLERY 1939
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Pen and ink, 14×10 (35·5×25·5); the drawing only occupies <i>c.</i>
10 1/2 (26·5) of the height of the paper.
<br/>Presented by the artist 1942.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Messrs John Murray.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Osbert Lancaster, <i>Homes Sweet Homes</i>, 1939, p.44, repr. p.45.</p>
<p>An illustration to the artist's own book <i>Homes Sweet Homes</i>, a survey of domestic taste, published by John Murray in 1939. ‘Greenery Yallery’ shows an interior of the late nineteenth century, reflecting the influence of 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/p/pre-raphaelite" title="Glossary definition for 'Pre-Raphaelite'"><span>Pre-Raphaelites</span></a>, William Morris's Medievalism, the Far East and the style of the Queen Anne period. ‘Surrounded by such testimonies to her inspiration...the intellectual young woman’, who is modelled on Rossetti's types, ‘could safely relax and lend a properly appreciative ear to the patter of Pater and the whispers of Wilde’ (Lancaster, <i>loc. cit.</i>).</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
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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults bench bowl caricature cartoon / comic strip chair clothing and personal items curtain design domestic emotions, concepts and ideas fan fine art and design, named works fine arts and music fireplace formal qualities furnishings gesticulating heating and lighting humour individuals: male interiors kitchen Lancaster, Osbert, ‘Homes Sweet Homes’ lifestyle and culture listening literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) living room man Morris, William, design named individuals objects painting people plants and flowers plate portraits satire screen sitting social comment society standing sunflower table table cloth talking universal concepts vase vessels and containers wallpaper Wilde, Oscar woman