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Dance in Cupids Alley
Bequeathed by Major-General Sir Mathew Gossett KCB 1909
abstract concepts
actions: expressive
adults
animals: birds
animals: mammals
architecture
birth to death
boy
bramble
children
classical myths: gods and heroes
clergyman
clothing and personal items
couple
crowd
crutch
dance
Dobson, Austin
dog - non-specific
dove
dress
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
Eros / Cupid
fine arts and music
flirtation
garden
garden structures
groups
happiness
headdress
hedge
history
holding hands
instrument, violin
leisure and pastimes
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
love
man
man, old
medical
music
music and entertainment
objects
people
period: 18th c.
plants and flowers
politics and society
religion and belief
religious
rose
sex and relationships
ship, sailing
smiling
society
stages of life
symbols and personifications
time - old man
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
trellis
wig
woman
woman, old
work and occupations
paper unique pen ink watercolour
18 December 2002 – 9 March 2003
2003-03-09
12 December 2002 – 9 March 2003
2003-03-09
2002-12-12
Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, UK)
2002-12-18
Arthur Rackham, 1867-1939
Loan-out
The Dance in Cupid’s Alley
frame: 464 × 771 × 40 mm
support: 325 × 597 mm
Bequeathed by Major-General Sir Mathew Gossett KCB 1909
<p><b>N02479</b> THE DANCE IN CUPID'S ALLEY 1904</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Arthur Rackham '04.’ b.r. on scroll.
<br/>Pen and watercolour, 12 3/4×23 1/2 (32·5×59·5).
<br/>Bequeathed by Major-General Sir Matthew Gossett 1909.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Centenary Exhibition</i>, R.W.S., summer 1904 (226).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Studio</i>, XXXIV, 1905, 197; <i>Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures</i> 1913, pl.37 (in colour); Derek Hudson, <i>Arthur Rackham: His Life and Work</i>, 1960, p.39 (in colour).</p>
<p>An illustration to a poem by Austin Dobson, which is inscribed on the back:</p>
<p>O Love's but a dance
<br/>Where time plays the fiddle!</p>
<p>Strange dance! 'Tis free to Rank and Rags
<br/>Here no distinction flatters,</p>
<p>Here Riches shakes its money-bags
<br/>And Poverty its tatters:</p>
<p>Church, Army, Navy, Physic, Law:
<br/>Maid, Mistress, Master, Valet:</p>
<p>Long locks, grey hairs, bald heads and a'—
<br/>They bob in ‘Cupid's Alley’.</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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abstract concepts actions: expressive adults animals: birds animals: mammals architecture birth to death boy bramble children classical myths: gods and heroes clergyman clothing and personal items couple crowd crutch dance Dobson, Austin dog - non-specific dove dress emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas Eros / Cupid fine arts and music flirtation garden garden structures groups happiness headdress hedge history holding hands instrument, violin leisure and pastimes literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) love man man, old medical music music and entertainment objects people period: 18th c. plants and flowers politics and society religion and belief religious rose sex and relationships ship, sailing smiling society stages of life symbols and personifications time - old man townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features transport: water trellis wig woman woman, old work and occupations