Graphite, ink and watercolour on paper
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Annual Banquet A Suggestion to New English Art Club
Bequeathed by J.R. Holliday 1927
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
archbishop
Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of
aristocrat
arm / arms raised
art critic
artist - non-specific
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
caricature
Christianity
Christianity, Protestantism
Christianity, Protestantism, Quakers
critic
Davidson, Randall Thomas Davidson, Baron
dinner party
eating and drinking
Edward VIII, King
English
fine art and design, named works
Fry, Roger
furnishings
group
groups
groups
hall
interiors
John, Augustus
John, Augustus, paintings
leisure and pastimes
listening
literary
man
named groups
named individuals
nationality
New English Art Club
objects
Oxford and Asquith, Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of
people
politician, prime minister
portraits
prince
public and municipal
public service
religion and belief
religions
religious
royalty and social rank
Russell, Walter
sitting
social comment
society
standing
Steer, Philip Wilson
table
talking
Tonks, Henry
work and occupations
paper unique graphite ink watercolour
Annual Banquet: A Suggestion to the New English Art Club
support: 305 × 406 mm
Bequeathed by J.R. Holliday 1927
<p><b>N04332</b> ANNUAL BANQUET - A SUGGESTION TO THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB 1913
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Max 1913’ b.r. and ‘Annual Banquet - a suggestion to the New English Art Club.’ b.c.
<br/>Pencil, pen and watercolour, 12×16 (30·5×40·5).
<br/>Bequeathed by J. R. Holliday 1927.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> J. R. Holliday, purchased at the Leicester Galleries 1913.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, April–May 1913 (I); N.E.A.C. <i>Retrospective Exhibition</i>, January–February 1925 (191) and Manchester, April–May 1925 (6).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Lynch, 1921, pp.139–40.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Max Beerbohm, <i>Fifty Caricatures</i>, 1913, pl.42; National Gallery, Millbank [Tate Gallery], <i>Review of the Acquisitions, 1927–29</i>, 1930, p.41.</p>
<p>An allusion to the Annual Banquets at the Royal <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/academy" title="Glossary definition for 'Academy'"><span>Academy</span></a>. The figures are, from left to right, Augustus John, Asquith, Roger Fry, the Prince of Wales, Wilson Steer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry Tonks, the Duke of Argyll and Walter Russell.</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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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults archbishop Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of aristocrat arm / arms raised art critic artist - non-specific artist, painter arts and entertainment caricature Christianity Christianity, Protestantism Christianity, Protestantism, Quakers critic Davidson, Randall Thomas Davidson, Baron dinner party eating and drinking Edward VIII, King English fine art and design, named works Fry, Roger furnishings group groups groups hall interiors John, Augustus John, Augustus, paintings leisure and pastimes listening literary man named groups named individuals nationality New English Art Club objects Oxford and Asquith, Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of people politician, prime minister portraits prince public and municipal public service religion and belief religions religious royalty and social rank Russell, Walter sitting social comment society standing Steer, Philip Wilson table talking Tonks, Henry work and occupations