Graphite and watercolour on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/william-g-simmonds-1942" aria-label="More by William G. Simmonds" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">William G. Simmonds</a>
Seeds Love
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1907
actions: processes and functions
adults
agriculture and fishing
animals: birds
animals: mammals
basket
crow
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
England
England, South West
England, Southern
Fairford
field
Gloucestershire
herdsman / herdswoman
herdsman / herdswoman, shepherd / shepherdess
history
landscape
leisure and pastimes
looking / watching
love
man
music and entertainment
objects
people
period: Middle Ages
places
politics and society
seasons
sheep
singing
sowing
spring
sunshine
tree
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
vessels and containers
weather
woman
wooded
work and occupations
paper unique graphite watercolour
The Seeds of Love
support: 591 × 464 mm
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> 1907
<p><b>N02139</b> THE SEEDS OF LOVE 1906</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘W.G.Simmonds/1906’ b.l.
<br/>Watercolour, 23 3/4×18 3/4 (59×46·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1907.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1907 (966).</p>
<p>In a letter to the compiler (7 August 1958) the artist explained that the subject was suggested to him by ‘the beauty of the delicate green trunks and branches of the beech trees against the blue sky and the rich Gloucestershire earth. The trees, figures, grass and earth were painted directly into the picture, from nature, at Fairford, but the sheep and lambs, also directly, from a flock in the Eton College playing fields.’</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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2004-07-16T00:00:00
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actions: processes and functions adults agriculture and fishing animals: birds animals: mammals basket crow emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas England England, Southern England, South West Fairford field Gloucestershire herdsman / herdswoman herdsman / herdswoman, shepherd / shepherdess history landscape leisure and pastimes looking / watching love man music and entertainment objects people period: Middle Ages places politics and society seasons sheep singing sowing spring sunshine tree UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions vessels and containers weather woman wooded work and occupations