Watercolour and ink on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
The Rake’s Progress
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Departure
Purchased 1940
actions: expressive
adults
architecture
brothel
cane / walking stick
caricature
clothing and personal items
diseases and conditions
door
drunkenness
features
fine arts and music
furnishings
hat
hat stand
interiors
linking arms
man
morality
objects
people
picture
places of entertainment
satire
social comment
society
talking
woman
paper unique watercolour ink
The Departure
support: 171 × 210 mm
Purchased 1940
<p><b>A01033</b> THE RAKE'S PROGRESS 1931</p>
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<br/>(v) THE DEPARTURE
<br/>Inscr. ‘E. Ardizzone 31’ b.r.
<br/>Watercolour, pen and ink, 6 3/4×8 1/4 (17×21).
<br/>Five designs, purchased from the Nicholson Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leger Gallery, June 1931 (33–7); <i>Water Colours by Modern English and French Artists</i>, Mayor Gallery, November 1937 (10–14); Nicholson Gallery, March–April 1940 (12–16).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> D. W. Last, ‘Edward Ardizzone: a first one-man show at the Leger Gallery’ in <i>Studio</i>, CII, 1931, p.36.</p>
<p>Although designed as a series these were not intended for book illustrations. They should not be regarded as moralities in the way that Hogarth's <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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> of the same subject were, but rather as mildly satirical reportage.</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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actions: expressive adults architecture brothel cane / walking stick caricature clothing and personal items diseases and conditions door drunkenness features fine arts and music furnishings hat hat stand interiors linking arms man morality objects people picture places of entertainment satire social comment society talking woman