Chalk on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-wheatley-2137" aria-label="More by John Wheatley" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">John Wheatley</a>
Mother and Child
Purchased 1924
actions: postures and motions
adults
baby
birth to death
breast feeding
children
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
family
individuals: female
looking down
mother and child
named individuals
people
portraits
society
tenderness
Wheatley, Elizabeth
Wheatley, Grace
woman
paper unique chalk
Mother and Child
support: 559 × 445 mm
Purchased 1924
<p><b>N03851</b> MOTHER AND CHILD 1915</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘John Wheatley, 1915’ b.r.
<br/>Chalk, 22×17 1/2 (56×24).
<br/>Purchased from Campbell Dodgson (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1924.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Campbell Dodgson from the artist.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Burlington Magazine</i>, XXXIX, 1921, p.139.</p>
<p>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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> is of the artist's wife Grace and their baby daughter Elizabeth, born 15 July 1915, and was done in the following September (letter from the artist's widow, 12 January 1956).</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-05T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults baby birth to death breast feeding children emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas family individuals: female looking down mother and child named individuals people portraits society tenderness Wheatley, Elizabeth Wheatley, Grace woman