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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/walter-dendy-sadler-469" aria-label="More by Walter Dendy Sadler" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Walter Dendy Sadler</a>
A Good Story
Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
chair
domestic
fireplace
flask
friar / monk
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living room
man
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painting oil paint canvas
A Good Story
support: 622 × 819 mm
frame: 980 × 1083 × 150 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999962" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Sir Henry Tate</a> 1894
<p><b>N01556</b> A GOOD STORY 1881</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘W Dendy Sadler. 81.’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 24 1/2×32 1/4 (62×82).
<br/>Tate Gift 1894.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> F. G. Stephens, ‘Walter Dendy Sadler’ in <i>Art Journal</i>, 1895, p.197.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Sir Edward J. Poynter, <i>The National Gallery</i>, III, 1900, p.261.</p>
<p>Another of Sadler's illustrations of monastic life, it is described in the <i>Art Journal</i> as ‘a travelling friar relating a laughable anecdote to a high dignitary of the Church’. In the <i>Short Guide to the Tate Gallery</i> published in 1897 it is entitled ‘Three Monks’.</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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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults chair domestic fireplace flask friar / monk furnishings heating and lighting interiors leisure and pastimes living room man objects people recreational activities religious sitting story telling table talking vessels and containers work and occupations