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Audrey and her Goats
Presented by W. Graham Robertson 1925
‘As You Like It’
adults
agriculture and fishing
animals: mammals
arts and entertainment
forest
goat
herdsman / herdswoman
herdsman / herdswoman, goatherd
jester
landscape
literature and fiction
people
Shakespeare
woman
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
1 May 2017 – 4 February 2018
2018-02-04
1 May 2017 – 28 January 2018
2018-01-28
2017-05-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2017-05-01
William Stott of Oldham
Collection based display
14 January 2019 – 16 June 2019
2019-06-16
14 January 2019 – 16 June 2019
2019-06-16
2019-01-14
Gallery Oldham (Oldham, UK)
http://www.galleryoldham.org.uk
2019-01-14
Stott Tour
Loan-out
Audrey and her Goats
support: 2045 × 2134 mm
frame: 2105 × 2201 × 120 mm
Presented by W. Graham Robertson 1925
<p><b>N04043</b> AUDREY AND HER GOATS 1883–9</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 80 1/2×84 (204·5×213·5).
<br/>Presented by W. Graham Robertson 1925.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> W. Graham Robertson by 1906.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Summer Exhibition</i>, Grosvenor Gallery, 1890 (109); R.I., 1906 (27, repr.), Newcastle, 1906 (42, repr.), Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, 1907 (79), and Nottingham, 1907 (17).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> ‘Studio Talk’ in <i>Studio</i>, XLII, 1908, p.143; Feddon and Long, 1924, p.48; Mackay, 1951, pp.66–8, 76–8, 119, 129.</p>
<p>Begun in the winter of 1883–4 and completed in 1889. Rejected by the R.A. in 1890, it was hung at the last moment, together with several other rejected works by Scottish painters, in the Grosvenor Gallery exhibition which opened the same day. The subject is taken from Shakespeare's <i>As You Like It</i>; Touchstone is shown in the foreground on the right.</p>
<p>Melville met W. Graham Robertson, the donor of his two works in the Tate Gallery, in 1897 and later lived as his neighbour at Whitley in Surrey.</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, II
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2004-07-20T00:00:00
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adults agriculture and fishing animals: mammals arts and entertainment ‘As You Like It’ forest goat herdsman / herdswoman herdsman / herdswoman, goatherd jester landscape literature and fiction people Shakespeare woman work and occupations