Oil paint on mahogany
Tate Britain
Tate Collection
Works with images
Works on display
General Collection
Robert Vernon
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-david-wilkie-600" aria-label="More by Sir David Wilkie" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir David Wilkie</a>
Newsmongers
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
actions: expressive
actions: processes and functions
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
baker
boy
carrying / holding
children
dog - non-specific
food and drink
group
groups
hoop
leisure and pastimes
man
meat
newspaper - non-specific
objects
people
reading
reading, writing, printed matter
recreational activities
talking
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
toys and models
trading and commercial
woman
work and occupations
<p>Here, a group gathers eagerly to read the newest headlines – including a baker distracted from his roast and pie. This may be the latest news story or allude to the dispatches arriving during the recent war with France. There was an explosion of newsprint during the 19th century. Some 15 hundred new magazines and newspapers were established between 1800–60 in London alone. Wilkie emphasises the sense of community these publications created. The distant city may relate to contemporary reports of social unrest, further suggesting the news could bring unity and order.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2023</em></p>
painting oil paint mahogany
15 July 2002 – 21 May 2007
2007-05-21
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-07-15
Exhibiting Turner
Collection based display
26 September 2022
26 September 2022
2022-09-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-09-26
Gallery 10
Collection based display
Newsmongers
support: 437 × 361 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999978" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Robert Vernon</a> 1847
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<p>Here, a group gathers eagerly to read the newest headlines – including a baker distracted from his roast and pie. This may be the latest news story, or allude to the dispatches arriving during the recent war with France. There was an explosion of newsprint during the 19th century. Some 15 hundred new magazines and newspapers were established between 1800–60 in London alone. Wilkie emphasises the sense of community these publications created. The distant city may relate to contemporary reports of social unrest, further suggesting the news could bring unity and order.</p>
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actions: expressive actions: processes and functions adults animals: mammals architecture baker boy carrying / holding children dog - non-specific food and drink group groups hoop leisure and pastimes man meat newspaper - non-specific objects people reading reading, writing, printed matter recreational activities talking townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features toys and models trading and commercial woman work and occupations