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Fan Romantic Excursion
Presented by Sir Edmund Davis 1917
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painting watercolour silk
14 June 2003 – 9 November 2003
2003-11-09
14 June 2003 – 17 August 2003
2003-08-17
2003-06-14
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
6 September 2003 – 9 November 2003
2003-11-09
2003-09-06
National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au
2003-06-14
Charles Conder Retrospective
Loan-out
Fan: The Romantic Excursion
support: 203 × 425 mm
Presented by Sir Edmund Davis 1917
<p><b>N03194</b> THE ROMANTIC EXCURSION: FAN 1899
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Conder. 99’ on left wing of fan b.r.
<br/>Watercolour on silk mounted on board, 8×16 3/4 (20·5×42·5).
<br/>Presented by Sir Edmund Davis 1917.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> A. Halford by 1909; Sir Edmund Davis by 1914.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>A Loan Collection of Old Masters, Fans and Drawings on Silk, by Conder and Mrs Mary Davis</i>, Colnaghi &amp; Obach Gallery, New York, November 1914 (9), as ‘The Excursion Fan’, lent by Edmund Davis; <i>The Collection of Edmund Davis</i>, French Gallery, March 1915 (42), as ‘The Romantic Excursion’; Tate Gallery, July–September 1927 (48), as ‘The Romantic Adventure Fan’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Gibson, 1914, p.96; Rothenstein, 1938, p.259, as ‘The Romantic Adventure’.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Burlington Magazine</i>, XV, 1909, facing p.14, pl.3; <i>Studio</i>, LXV, 1915, facing p.14 (in colour); <i>Tate Gallery Illustrations</i>, 1928, pl.188.</p>
<p>Conder began designing fans in 1893 under the influence of French eighteenth-century as well as Chinese and Japanese art.</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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adults agriculture and fishing agriculture, gardening & fishing architecture church clothing and personal items couch crook fan flirtation furnishings hat herdsman / herdswoman herdsman / herdswoman, shepherd / shepherdess inscriptions man objects people poem religious sex and relationships society symbols and personifications woman work and occupations