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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/georgiana-macdonald-361" aria-label="More by Georgiana Macdonald (Lady Burne-Jones)" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Georgiana Macdonald (Lady Burne-Jones)</a>
Dead Bird
Presented by Mrs J.W. Mackail 1938
animals: actions
animals: birds
bird - non-specific
death
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
vulnerability
<p>Georgina Macdonald painted <span>Dead Bird</span> when she was 17 years old. She trained at the Government School of Design, London. This detailed, life-sized execution reflects both contemporary interest in natural history, a common pursuit for educated young women at the time, and the artist’s studies with the progressive painter Ford Madox Brown. The bird, a Green-Headed Tanager (Tangara seledon) had been brought from South America.</p><p>Macdonald had joined the Pre-Raphaelite circle at the age of 15, and was influenced by the critic John Ruskin who encouraged artists to focus on the appearance and significance of nature and natural forms.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2013</em></p>
paper unique watercolour
3 May 2013 – 29 March 2015
2015-03-29
3 May 2013 – 29 March 2015
2015-03-29
2013-05-03
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-05-03
Gallery 8
Collection based display
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
17 May 2021 – 15 August 2021
2021-08-15
17 May 2021 – 15 August 2021
2021-08-15
2021-05-17
Bewdley Museum (Bewdley, UK)
2021-05-17
The MacDonald Sisters
Loan-out
Dead Bird
support: 178 × 98 mm
frame: 340 × 264 × 17 mm
Presented by Mrs J.W. Mackail 1938
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<p>Georgina Macdonald painted <i>Dead Bird</i> when she was 17 years old. She trained at the Government School of Design, London. This detailed, life-sized execution reflects both contemporary interest in natural history, a common pursuit for educated young women at the time, and the artist’s studies with the progressive painter Ford Madox Brown. The bird, a Green-Headed Tanager (Tangara seledon) had been brought from South America. </p>
<p>Macdonald had joined the Pre-Raphaelite circle at the age of 15, and was influenced by the critic John Ruskin who encouraged artists to focus on the appearance and significance of nature and natural forms.</p>
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animals: actions animals: birds bird - non-specific death emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas vulnerability