Watercolour on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/henry-silkstone-hopwood-2193" aria-label="More by Henry Silkstone Hopwood" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Henry Silkstone Hopwood</a>
Industry
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1894
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
agriculture and fishing
animals: fish and aquatic life
bowl
boy
children
domestic
fisherman / fisherwoman
interiors
kitchen
looking / watching
mussel
objects
people
reading, writing, printed matter
sitting
slate
vessels and containers
woman
work and occupations
paper unique watercolour
18 June 2005 – 10 September 2005
2005-09-10
18 June 2005 – 10 September 2005
2005-09-10
2005-06-18
Penlee House Gallery & Museum (Penzance, UK)
8 October 2005 – 19 November 2005
2005-11-19
2005-10-08
Newport Museum and Art Gallery (Newport, UK)
http://www.newport.gov.uk
2005-06-18
Britain's Coastal Art Colonies, 1880 - 1940
Loan-out
Industry
support: 820 × 1274 mm
frame: 1102 × 1557 × 80 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> 1894
<p><b>N01706</b> INDUSTRY 1894
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<br/>Inscr. ‘H. S. Hopwood 1894.’ b.l.
<br/>Watercolour, 32 1/2×50 (82·5×127).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1894.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
R.A., 1894 (959).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Basil S. Long, ‘List of Works exhibited by Henry Silkstone Hopwood, R.W.S.’ in <i>The Old Water-Colour Society's Club</i>, II, 1925, p.59.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Studio</i>, XL, 1907, p.236.</p>
<p>The subject is an old Yorkshire fish-wife opening mussels to be used for bait while a boy is working at his lesson on a slate. The same old woman and boy seem to appear in ‘Grace after Meat’, 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/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> reproduced in <i>Studio</i>, XLIX, 1910, p.28.</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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2004-09-23T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults agriculture and fishing animals: fish and aquatic life bowl boy children domestic fisherman / fisherwoman interiors kitchen looking / watching mussel objects people reading, writing, printed matter sitting slate vessels and containers woman work and occupations