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Cyder Feast
Presented by S. Calvert 1912
adults
agriculture and fishing
agriculture, gardening & fishing
animals: mammals
apple
astronomy
basket
cider press
dance
drink, cider
emotions, concepts and ideas
fertility
food and drink
fruit, apple
fruit-pressing
ladder
leisure and pastimes
man
music and entertainment
objects
ox
people
sun
tools and machinery
universal concepts
vessels and containers
woman
work and occupations
yoke
<p>In September 1818 Palmer wrote to George Richmond that 'Mr Calvert I found... finishing with surprising rapidity... a beautiful and luxuriant design of the cider pressing: a wood-engraving'. The subject may contain memories of apple harvests that Calvert had perhaps witnessed during his childhood in the cider country of Western England. It's theme, as for most of Calvert's prints, is the fertility and abundance of nature. Earlier states of the print were inscribed with the words 'By the Gift of God in Christ'. However Calvert later removed them, thus helping reinforce the essentially pagan character of the subject.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper print wood engraving
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
9 July 2022 – 11 September 2022
2022-09-11
9 July 2022 – 11 September 2022
2022-09-11
2022-07-09
Royal West of England Academy (Bristol, UK)
2022-07-09
Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1715 - 2022
Loan-out
The Cyder Feast
image: 76 × 127 mm
frame: 428 × 300 × 25 mm
Presented by S. Calvert 1912
<p>In September 1818 Palmer wrote to George Richmond that 'Mr Calvert I found... finishing with surprising rapidity... a beautiful and luxuriant design of the cider pressing: 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>'. The subject may contain memories of apple harvests that Calvert had perhaps witnessed during his childhood in the cider country of Western England. It's theme, as for most of Calvert's <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/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a>, is the fertility and abundance of nature. Earlier states of the print were inscribed with the words 'By the Gift of God in Christ'. However Calvert later removed them, thus helping reinforce the essentially pagan character of the subject.</p>
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adults agriculture and fishing agriculture, gardening & fishing animals: mammals apple astronomy basket cider press dance drink, cider emotions, concepts and ideas fertility food and drink fruit, apple fruit-pressing ladder leisure and pastimes man music and entertainment objects ox people sun tools and machinery universal concepts vessels and containers woman work and occupations yoke