Ink, watercolour and gouache on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Contemporary Art Society
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Earnshaw Family by Fireside
Presented by Mrs F. Samuel, Mrs E. Bishop and Michel H. Salaman through the Contemporary Art Society 1941
actions: processes and functions
adults
boy
Brontë, Emily, ‘Wuthering Heights’, 1847
characters
children
domestic
domestic
Earnshaw, Catherine
family
family
fire, open
fireplace
girl
group
groups
Heathcliff
heating and lighting
interiors
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
living room
looking / watching
man
objects
people
servant
society
woman
work and occupations
paper unique ink watercolour gouache
The Earnshaw Family by the Fireside
support: 356 × 254 mm
Presented by Mrs F. Samuel, Mrs E. Bishop and Michel H. Salaman through the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1941
<p><b>N05421</b> THE EARNSHAW FAMILY BY THE FIRESIDE
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Pen and sepia wash, heightened with white, 14×10 (35·5×25).
<br/>Presented by Mrs F. Samuel, Mrs E. Bishop and Michel H. Salaman through the Contemporary Art Society 1941.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> As for <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/clarke-hall-heathcliffe-supporting-catherine-n05418" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05418</span></a>.</p>
<p>Old Earnshaw on his return from Liverpool, where he found Heathcliff abandoned, is showing the child to his wife and children: ‘He threw himself into a chair, laughing and groaning and bid them stand off, for he was nearly killed.... We crowded round and over Miss Cathy's head I had a peep at a dirty, ragged black-haired child’ (Chapter 4). A rough sketch for 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/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a>, with some of the figures differently placed (the boy Hindley is standing on the right by the fire, and Nelly Dean is nearer the group), is reproduced in <i>The Slade, 1893–1907</i>, ed. by John Fothergill, 1907, pl.42. A study for Nelly Dean putting a log on the fire (as in <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/clarke-hall-the-earnshaw-family-by-the-fireside-n05421" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05421</span></a>) is reproduced in <i>Studio</i>, CVI, 1933, p.215.</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</p>
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: processes and functions adults boy Brontë, Emily, ‘Wuthering Heights’, 1847 characters children domestic domestic Earnshaw, Catherine family family fire, open fireplace girl group groups Heathcliff heating and lighting interiors literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) living room looking / watching man objects people servant society woman work and occupations