Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/frank-craig-954" aria-label="More by Frank Craig" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Frank Craig</a>
Heretic
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1906
adults
cloak
clothing and personal items
crime and punishment
crowd
dress: fantasy/fancy
execution
friar / monk
grave digger
groups
heresy
historical
historical, Medieval
history
Judaeo-Christian imagery
man
objects
official
people
period: Middle Ages
politics and society
public service
reading, writing, printed matter
religion and belief
religious
scroll
society
woman
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
The Heretic
support: 817 × 1473 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1906
<p><b>N02071</b> THE HERETIC 1906
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Frank Craig - 1906’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 32×58 (81×147).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1906.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1906 (280).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Anon., ‘The Royal Academy Exhibition’ in <i>Studio</i>, XXXVIII, 1906, p.4, repr. p.11.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Pictures</i>, 1906, p.i; <i>Academy Notes</i>, 1906, p.73.</p>
<p>The scene is a street in a medieval town. The heretic, a woman, leads the procession; on the right, an officer of justice carries the warrant for her execution, and farther right walks the gravedigger with his tools. Monks' accompany her, and in the background are some spectators in modern dress, one of which is a self-<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/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> of the artist.</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</p>
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2004-09-23T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults cloak clothing and personal items crime and punishment crowd dress: fantasy/fancy execution friar / monk grave digger groups heresy historical historical, Medieval history Judaeo-Christian imagery man objects official people period: Middle Ages politics and society public service reading, writing, printed matter religion and belief religious scroll society woman work and occupations