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Cow and Calf
Purchased 1922
animals: actions
animals: mammals
cow
feeding
relief marble
Cow and Calf
object: 295 × 394 mm
Purchased 1922
<p><b>N03639</b> COW AND CALF 1897
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<br/>Inscr. ‘I· Havard Thomas· Sc· Valle di Pompei ·MDCCCXCVII·’
<br/>Relief in white marble, 11 5/8×15 1/2 (29·5×39·5), framed in coloured marble, 15 1/8×18 5/8 (38·5×47·25).
<br/>Purchased from the Leicester Galleries (Grant-in-Aid) 1922.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Carfax &amp; Co., November 1909 (11); Leicester Galleries, April–May 1922 (10), as of 1895.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Tate Gallery Illustrations</i>, 1928, pl.129.</p>
<p>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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> for this bas-<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/relief" title="Glossary definition for 'Relief'"><span>relief</span></a> was shown at the Carfax Gallery in 1909 (46) and again at the Memorial Exhibition, 1922 (71). The work was executed in 1897 at the Valle di Pompei, a small town situated a quarter of a mile from the ancient ruins of Pompeii, during the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculptor</span></a>'s stay in Italy 1889–1906.</p>
<p>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/m/metal" title="Glossary definition for 'Metal'"><span>bronze</span></a> bas-relief of ‘Cow and Calf’, dated 1894, was shown at the Beaux Arts Gallery, 1936 (24). This now belongs to Mrs Mary Baskcomb, the sculptor's daughter.</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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animals: actions animals: mammals cow feeding