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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-calvert-81" aria-label="More by Edward Calvert" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Edward Calvert</a>
Chamber Idyll
Presented by S. Calvert 1912
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
agriculture, gardening & fishing
animals: mammals
astronomy
bed
bedroom
cow
crook
domestic
dressing / undressing
emotions, concepts and ideas
eroticism
farmland
female
fertility
food and drink
fruit, apple
furnishings
idyll
interiors
landscape
male
man
night
nudes
objects
people
plough
sex
sex and relationships
sheep
sickle
sitting
society
standing
star
times of the day
universal concepts
woman
wooded
<p>Calvert's engravings 'The Return Home' and 'The Sheep of his Pasture' are particularly close in style to Blake's illustrations for Thornton's edition of Virgil's 'Pastorals'. 'The Chamber Idyll', by contrast, is a truly original image, and is usually regarded as Calvert's masterpiece. It is a sensuous vision of a bucolic honeymoon. The cottage stands open to the warm night, apples litter the floor, and a plough is silhouetted on the far right-hand horizon emphasising the end of the day's labours. The print, with its fine engraved lines, is an astonishing technical achievement for an artist who had been making prints for only four years. Yet after this work Calvert abandoned printmaking altogether.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper print wood engraving
12 August 2019 – 17 March 2020
2020-03-17
12 August 2019
2019-08-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2019-08-12
Blake Followers
Collection based display
The Chamber Idyll
image: 41 × 76 mm
Presented by S. Calvert 1912
<p>Calvert's <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>engravings</span></a> 'The Return Home' and 'The Sheep of his Pasture' are particularly close in style to Blake's illustrations for Thornton's edition of Virgil's 'Pastorals'. 'The Chamber Idyll', by contrast, is a truly original image, and is usually regarded as Calvert's masterpiece. It is a sensuous vision of a bucolic honeymoon. The cottage stands open to the warm night, apples litter the floor, and a plough is silhouetted on the far right-hand horizon emphasising the end of the day's labours. The print, with its fine engraved lines, is an astonishing technical achievement for an artist who had been making prints for only four years. Yet after this work Calvert abandoned <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>printmaking</span></a> altogether.</p>
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actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults agriculture, gardening & fishing animals: mammals astronomy bed bedroom cow crook domestic dressing / undressing emotions, concepts and ideas eroticism farmland female fertility food and drink fruit, apple furnishings idyll interiors landscape male man night nudes objects people plough sex sex and relationships sheep sickle sitting society standing star times of the day universal concepts woman wooded