Oil paint on canvas
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Worship Bacchus
Presented by R.E. Lofft and friends 1869
actions: expressive
adults
architecture
beggar
birth to death
birthday
charity
chimney
church
classical myths: gods and heroes
coast
commedia dell’arte
crowd
dedication
Dionysus / Bacchus
diseases and conditions
drinking
drunkenness
eating and drinking
fighting
fire
flag - non-specific
garden structures
groups
health and welfare
industrial
industrial society
inscriptions
interiors
leisure and pastimes
man
marriage
monuments
music and entertainment
natural phenomena
objects
pavilion
people
places of entertainment
places of entertainment
poverty
public house / bar
religion and belief
religious
religious
religious and ceremonial
restaurant
satire
seascapes and coasts
sex and relationships
ship, warship
shrine
smoke
social comment
society
square
statue
symbols and personifications
townscape
townscapes / man-made features
train
transport: land
transport: water
woman
painting oil paint canvas
24 May 2001 – 2 December 2001
2001-12-02
24 May 2001 – 2 December 2001
2001-12-02
2001-05-24
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-05-24
Cruikshank Demon Drink
Collection based display
9 June 2010 – 5 September 2010
2010-09-05
9 June 2010 – 5 September 2010
2010-09-05
2010-06-09
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-06-09
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art
Exhibition
16 November 2015 – 13 November 2016
2016-11-13
16 November 2015 – 13 November 2016
2016-11-13
2015-11-16
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2015-11-16
Art and Alcohol
Collection based display
The Worship of Bacchus
support: 2360 × 4060 mm
frame: 2815 × 4520 × 145 mm
Presented by R.E. Lofft and friends 1869
<p><span>The painting support is a plain weave linen canvas with closely woven fine threads. Stamps on the reverse of the canvas show that the support was ready prepared and stretched by the Colourman's  Winsor &amp; Newton. The canvas has a thick glue-size layer and a single priming layer of lead white and chalk bound in oil. There is a second thin priming layer, probably applied by the artist. It is a very pale pink colour, consisting of lead white, chalk and a small amount of vermillion.</span>
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<br/><span>The technique for the painting is very straight forward. The images were initially drawn in pencil on the priming, which remains visible where the paint is thin. Over this there is a thin under- painting mainly in brown and and yellow-brown washes of oil paint. On top of this the images have been more clearly defined in thicker paint and colours that have brush markings in many places. The pigments identified are lead white, chrome yellow, vermillion, cobalt blue, Mars brown and reddish Mars brown. Impastoed highlights of white or tinted white have  been generally applied with vigorous squiggles, dabs and blobs and are a distictive feature adding liveliness to the paint and composition.</span>
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<br/><span>During major conservation treatment (1999-2001) the support was repaired, strip-lined and loose lined and the original stretcher replaced with a new aluminium stretcher. A considerable layer of dirt and a discloured varnish layer was removed and the painting was revarnished with a synthetic varnish. Damages and losses were also repaired. Finally a frame was designed and made.</span>
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<br/><span>Christopher Holden</span>
<br/><span>July 1999</span>
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Technique and condition
2003-10-10T00:00:00
technique-and-condition
TECHNIQUE_AND_CONDITION_TEXT
actions: expressive adults architecture beggar birthday birth to death charity chimney church classical myths: gods and heroes coast commedia dell’arte crowd dedication Dionysus / Bacchus diseases and conditions drinking drunkenness eating and drinking fighting fire flag - non-specific garden structures groups health and welfare industrial industrial society inscriptions interiors leisure and pastimes man marriage monuments music and entertainment natural phenomena objects pavilion people places of entertainment places of entertainment poverty public house / bar religion and belief religious religious religious and ceremonial restaurant satire seascapes and coasts sex and relationships ship, warship shrine smoke social comment society square statue symbols and personifications townscape townscapes / man-made features train transport: land transport: water woman