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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-calvert-81" aria-label="More by Edward Calvert" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Edward Calvert</a>
Bacchante engraved by Welby Sherman
Presented by S. Calvert 1912
actions: postures and motions
adults
Bacchante
classical myths: gods and heroes
female
fine arts and music
instrument, lyre
landscape
leisure and pastimes
looking up
music
music and entertainment
nudes
objects
people
religion and belief
standing
valley
woman
wooded
<p>Welby Sherman (fl.1827-1836) is one of the more obscure members of the Ancients. Little is known about him other than that he was primarily an engraver. Palmer, Calvert and probably also George Richmond allowed him to engrave their designs. This image, for example, is based on a wood-engraving by Calvert, although the figure is reversed. Sherman was perpetually short of money. Some ten years after he made this engraving, he swindled Palmer's brother William out of ¿500 in wagers on games of billiards, and fled abroad.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper print wood engraving
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
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The Bacchante, engraved by Welby Sherman
image: 89 × 51 mm
Presented by S. Calvert 1912
<p>Welby Sherman (fl.1827-1836) is one of the more obscure members of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/t/the-ancients" title="Glossary definition for 'The Ancients'"><span>the Ancients</span></a>. Little is known about him other than that he was primarily 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/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraver</span></a>. Palmer, Calvert and probably also George Richmond allowed him to engrave their designs. This image, for example, is based on 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/w/wood-engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Wood engraving'"><span>wood-engraving</span></a> by Calvert, although the figure is reversed. <br/>Sherman was perpetually short of money. Some ten years after he made this engraving, he swindled Palmer's brother William out of ¿500 in wagers on games of billiards, and fled abroad.</p>
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actions: postures and motions adults Bacchante classical myths: gods and heroes female fine arts and music instrument, lyre landscape leisure and pastimes looking up music music and entertainment nudes objects people religion and belief standing valley woman wooded