Watercolour on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Sir Patrick Spens
Purchased 1919
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
anonymous, ‘Sir Patrick Spens’
anxiety
baby
child
children
comforting
courtier
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
history
literature and fiction
looking / watching
people
period: Middle Ages
places
politics and society
rocky
royalty and social rank
sadness
Scotland
sea
seascapes and coasts
sitting
standing
tales, legends and traditional
UK countries and regions
woman
work and occupations
<p>This picture is based on an ancient Scottish ballad. The King of Scotland asks Sir Patrick Spens, the best sailor in the land, to sail him to Norway to fetch back his daughter. But on the return the ship is lost in a great storm, and the King, his court, and all aboard perish. In Scotland their wives and families look in vain for the ship's sail, realising what has happened, and this is the moment Siddall shows. The figure on the right appears to be a self-portrait. Siddall was greatly interested in poetry and wrote poems herself.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique watercolour
12 July 2003 – 15 August 2004
2004-08-15
12 July 2003 – 28 September 2003
2003-09-28
2003-07-12
Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth, Australia)
25 October 2003 – 15 February 2004
2004-02-15
2003-10-25
Dunedin Public Art Gallery (Dunedin, New Zealand)
http://www.dunedin.art.museum
14 May 2004 – 15 August 2004
2004-08-15
2004-05-14
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
2003-07-12
The Pre-Raphaelite Dream: Paintings and Drawings from the Tate Collection
Tate partnerships & programmes
12 September 2012 – 31 January 2014
2014-01-31
12 September 2012 – 13 January 2013
2013-01-13
2012-09-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
10 June 2013 – 22 September 2013
2013-09-22
2013-06-10
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia)
25 January 2014 – 6 April 2014
2014-04-06
2014-01-25
Mori Arts Centre (Tokyo, Japan)
19 April 2014 – 13 July 2014
2014-07-13
2014-04-19
Palazzo Chiablese (Turin, Italy)
2012-09-12
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
Exhibition
17 February 2013 – 31 August 2014
2014-08-31
10 June 2013 – 13 October 2013
2013-10-13
2013-06-10
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia)
25 January 2014 – 6 April 2014
2014-04-06
2014-01-25
Mori Arts Centre (Tokyo, Japan)
19 April 2014 – 13 July 2014
2014-07-13
2014-04-19
Palazzo Chiablese (Turin, Italy)
2013-02-17
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde
Loan-out
20 April 2015 – 7 May 2017
2017-05-07
1 March 2015 – 7 May 2017
2017-05-07
2015-03-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2015-04-20
Pre Raphaelite Works on Paper
Collection based display
14 December 2018 – 19 September 2021
2021-09-19
14 December 2018 – 28 April 2019
2019-04-28
2018-12-14
National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia)
2018-12-14
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Tate partnerships & programmes
17 October 2019 – 26 January 2020
2020-01-26
1 October 2019 – 31 January 2020
2020-01-31
2019-10-01
National Portrait Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.npg.org.uk
2019-10-17
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
Loan-out
6 April 2023 – 24 September 2023
2023-09-24
6 April 2023 – 24 September 2023
2023-09-24
2023-04-06
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2023-04-06
The Rossettis
Exhibition
Sir Patrick Spens
support: 241 × 229 mm
Purchased 1919
<p>This picture is based on an ancient Scottish  ballad. The King of Scotland asks Sir Patrick Spens, the best sailor in the land, to sail him to Norway  to fetch back his daughter. But on the return the ship is lost in a great storm, and the King, his court, and all aboard perish. In Scotland their  wives and families look in vain for the ship's sail, realising what has happened, and this is the moment Siddall shows. The figure on the right appears to be 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>. Siddall was greatly interested in poetry and wrote poems herself.
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