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RatCatchers Daughter
Purchased 1924
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Housman, Laurence, ‘The Blue Moon’
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28 November 2007 – 18 February 2008
2008-02-18
28 November 2007 – 18 February 2008
2008-02-18
2007-11-28
Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, UK)
2007-11-28
The Age of Enchantmnet: Beardsley, Dulac and their contemporaries
Loan-out
The Rat-Catcher’s Daughter
support: 152 × 92 mm
Purchased 1924
<p><b>N03877</b> THE RAT-CATCHER'S DAUGHTER <i>c.</i> 1904
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<br/>Inscr. ‘LH’ b.l.
<br/>Pen and ink on brown paper, 6×3 5/8 (15×9).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1924.</p>
<p>An illustration for a book of fairy-tales by Laurence Housman, <i>The Blue Moon</i>, John Murray, 1904, facing p.175; reprinted in <i>A Doorway to Fairyland</i>, 1922, p.101. The story tells how a money-grabbing rat-catcher caught a gnome in his trap. The gnome promised, as the price of release, to make him the richest man on earth, and that his daughter should marry the king's son. The gnome then took Jacome, the beautiful daughter, underground for three years and turned her into pure gold; eventually she did marry the king's son, but the rat-catcher lost his wealth.</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
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2004-07-20T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults candle cellar clothing and personal items domestic hat heating and lighting Housman, Laurence, ‘The Blue Moon’ imp interiors literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) magic and occultism natural phenomena objects people religion and belief shadow standing woman