Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/william-logsdail-354" aria-label="More by William Logsdail" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">William Logsdail</a>
St MartinintheFields
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1888
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
carriage
cart
child labour
children
church
classical
column
crime and punishment
dog - non-specific
England
features
flower
girl
group
groups
health and welfare
horse
man
people
periods and styles
places
plants and flowers
policeman / woman
portico
religious
riding
society
square
St Martin-in-the-Fields
townscapes / man-made features
trader
trading and commercial
Trafalgar Square
transport: land
UK countries and regions
UK London
woman
work and occupations
<p>Logsdail painted this picture from a vehicle stationed for weeks at the kerb-side in Trafalgar Square, his feet covered with straw to protect them from the cold. It is the most famous of his series of London scenes. The view highlights the plight of child street sellers, and would also have reminded contemporary audiences of the ‘Bloody Sunday’ riots which had taken place in Trafalgar Square a few months before. During the demonstration thousands of people, demanding the right to free speech, were brutally attacked by armed police and troops.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
5 May 2003 – 13 April 2004
2004-04-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-05-05
London: Modern City
Collection based display
8 August 2005 – 4 October 2010
2010-10-04
8 August 2005 – 4 October 2010
2010-10-04
2005-08-08
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-08-08
Victorian Spectacle
Collection based display
St Martin-in-the-Fields
support: 1435 × 1181 mm
frame: 1588 × 1388 × 106 mm, 47 kg
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1888
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<p>Logsdail painted this picture from a vehicle stationed for weeks at the kerb-side in Trafalgar Square, his feet covered with straw to protect them from the cold. It is the most famous of his series of London scenes. The view highlights the plight of child street sellers, and would also have reminded contemporary audiences of the ‘Bloody Sunday’ riots which had taken place in Trafalgar Square a few months before. During the demonstration thousands of people, demanding the right to free speech, were brutally attacked by armed police and troops.</p>
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2016-11-15T00:00:00
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<p><b>N01621</b> ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS 1888
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<br/>Inscr. ‘William Logsdail 88’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 56 1/4×46 1/2 (143×118).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1888.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1888 (548).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> E. T. Cook, <i>A Popular Handbook to the Tate Gallery</i>, 1898, p.234.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Sir Edward J. Poynter, <i>The National Gallery</i>, III, 1900, p.175; Tate Gallery, <i>Illustrated Catalogue</i>, 1912, p.65.</p>
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-16T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults animals: mammals architecture carriage cart child labour children church classical column crime and punishment dog - non-specific England features flower girl group groups health and welfare horse man people periods and styles places plants and flowers policeman / woman portico religious riding society square St Martin-in-the-Fields townscapes / man-made features trader trading and commercial Trafalgar Square transport: land UK countries and regions UK London woman work and occupations