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White Doe
Purchased 1924
adults
animals: mammals
deer
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
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 White Doe
support: 140 × 83 mm
Purchased 1924
<p><b>N03876</b> THE WHITE DOE <i>c.</i> 1904
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<br/>Inscr. ‘LH’ b.l.
<br/>Pen and ink on brown grained paper, 5 1/2×3 1/4 (14×8).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1924.</p>
<p>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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> illustrates a fairy-tale of the same name first published in Laurence Housman's <i>The Blue Moon</i>, John Murray, 1904, facing p.129, and reprinted in <i>Moonshine and Clover</i>, published by Jonathan Cape, 1922, p.149. The blocks for the title-page were <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraved</span></a> by the artist's sister, Miss Clemence Housman, and presented by her to the Tate Gallery in 1924.</p>
<p>The story is of a huntsman who tries to shoot a white doe, but she disappears through some cliffs and on following her he finds a beautiful woman, whom he marries; but the white doe appears to him in a dream, he shoots her and the next morning sees his wife dead beside him.</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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2004-10-05T00:00:00
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adults animals: mammals deer emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas Housman, Laurence, ‘The Blue Moon’ interiors literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) man people shed shock workspaces