Wood engraving on paper
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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>
Brook
Presented by S. Calvert 1912
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
agriculture, gardening & fishing
animals: features
animals: insects & lower animals
animals: mammals
architecture
bee
beehive
bending forward
carrying / holding
cottage
domestic
drawing water
emotions, concepts and ideas
fertility
food and drink
honey
honeycomb
jar
landscape
objects
people
residential
sheep
standing
stream
universal concepts
valley
vessels and containers
water: inland
woman
wooded
work and occupations
<p>In Calvert's engraving of 'The Bride' which hangs nearby, nature's abundance is evoked by the inclusion on the central tree of a huge bunch of grapes on a vine, one oozing great drops of juice. In this print pastoral richness is indicated by a hive in the left-hand tree, around which bees hover and from which honey gushes forth in streams. As with the 'Cyder Feast', Calvert later removed from the block of this print its Christian inscription, 'THE WATERS OF THIS BROOK SHALL NEVER FAIL TO THE MARRIED WIFE OF THE LORD GOD'. The female figures strongly recall those on antique gems, which George Richmond remembered Calvert collecting and studying.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper print wood engraving
The Brook
image: 51 × 89 mm
Presented by S. Calvert 1912
<p>In 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>engraving</span></a> of 'The Bride' which hangs nearby, nature's abundance is evoked by the inclusion on the central tree of a huge bunch of grapes on a vine, one oozing great drops of juice. In this <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>print</span></a> pastoral richness is indicated by a hive in the left-hand tree, around which bees hover and from which honey gushes forth in streams. As with the 'Cyder Feast', Calvert later removed from the block of this print its Christian inscription, 'THE WATERS OF THIS BROOK SHALL NEVER FAIL TO THE MARRIED WIFE OF THE LORD GOD'. The female figures strongly recall those on antique gems, which George Richmond remembered Calvert collecting and studying.</p>
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actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults agriculture, gardening & fishing animals: features animals: insects & lower animals animals: mammals architecture bee beehive bending forward carrying / holding cottage domestic drawing water emotions, concepts and ideas fertility food and drink honey honeycomb jar landscape objects people residential sheep standing stream universal concepts valley vessels and containers water: inland woman wooded work and occupations