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Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894
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<p>Sadler was well known for his humorous scenes of religious life. In this picture, which is also known as 'Tomorrow will be Friday', he shows a group of Franciscans fishing. These friars, were forbidden to eat meat on Fridays, in commemoration of the day when Christ was crucified. In 'Thursday', Sadler wrote, 'The background was made up from studies I had painted in Germany, with the help of some foreground studies made in the previous summer at Hurley on the Thames'. A pendant to this picture in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, called 'Friday', shows the friars enjoying their catch. The 1897 guide to the Tate noted that this picture 'was one of three that commenced Sir Henry Tate's collection'.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
4 February 2005 – 2 May 2005
2005-05-02
4 February 2005 – 2 May 2005
2005-05-02
2005-02-04
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2005-02-04
Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments
Exhibition
Thursday
support: 864 × 1410 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>Sadler was well known for his humorous scenes of  religious life. In this picture, which is also  known as 'Tomorrow will be Friday', he shows a  group of Franciscans fishing. These friars, were  forbidden to eat meat on Fridays, in commemoration  of the day when Christ was crucified. In  'Thursday', Sadler wrote, 'The background was made  up from studies I had painted in Germany, with the  help of some foreground studies made in the  previous summer at Hurley on the Thames'. A  <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/pendant" title="Glossary definition for 'Pendant'"><span>pendant</span></a> to this picture in the Walker Art Gallery,  Liverpool, called 'Friday', shows the friars  enjoying their catch. The 1897 guide to the Tate  noted that this picture 'was one of three that  commenced Sir Henry Tate's collection'.</p>
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2004-08-18T00:00:00
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<p><b>N01555</b> THURSDAY 1880</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘W Dendy Sadler. 80.’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 34×55 1/2 (86·5×141).
<br/>Tate Gift 1894.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1880 (590); <i>Opening of the New Art Gallery</i>, Blackburn, August–October 1894 (109).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> F. G. Stephens, ‘Walter Dendy Sadler’ in <i>Art Journal</i>, 1895, p.197; E. T. Cook, <i>A Popular Handbook to the Tate Gallery</i>, 1898, p.179.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Academy Notes</i>, 1880, p.55 (woodcut); <i>Art Journal</i>, 1888, p.212 (etching by F. Slocombe).</p>
<p>The picture shows a group of Capuchin friars fishing. This was one of the artist's favourite pastimes and he painted several pictures on this theme. The following year he exhibited ‘It is always the largest Fish that's lost’ and in 1882 the companion to <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sadler-thursday-n01555" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01555</span></a>, ‘Friday’, now in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. This shows Dominican monks in their refectory eating a rich variety of sea food. According to E. T. Cook (<i>loc. cit</i>) <span>N01555</span> was one of the three first pictures bought by Henry Tate and was the first monk picture painted by Sadler in England. ‘The background (he says) was made up from studies I had painted in Germany with the help of some foreground studies made in the previous summer at Hurley on the Thames.’ Actually, the first picture of monks fishing was ‘Steady Brother, Steady’, exhibited at the R.A. in 1875, but this may have been painted in Germany. In the <i>Short Guide to the Tate Gallery</i> published by the <i>Sunday Times</i> 1897, <span>N01555</span> is called ‘Tomorrow will be Friday’, and it is still sometimes known by that title.</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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2004-07-16T00:00:00
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adults agriculture, gardening & fishing animals: fish and aquatic life architecture bank chair countries and continents emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas fish fishing fishing net fishing rod friar / monk furnishings Germany group groups happiness leisure and pastimes man monastery natural phenomena objects people places reading recreational activities reflection religious religious river sport water: inland work and occupations