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Details
- Date
- 1821
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Edition
- only state
- Dimensions
- 23.0 x 31.5 cm image
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Don Mitchell Bequest Fund 2009
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 7.2009
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Théodore Géricault
Works in the collection
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About
The lithograph is one of a series of 12 plates completed by Géricault when he was in London in 1820-21. His English prints portray a range of genre subjects from beggars, the urban poor and the work of farriers to depictions of draught horses and thoroughbreds. The softness of the lithographic crayon is brilliantly manipulated to capture the steamy atmosphere inside the smithy.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009
European prints and drawings 1500-1900, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Aug 2014–02 Nov 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Germain Bazin, Théodore Géricault: étude critique, documents et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1987-1997, Vol.VII; 89-90, (illus.). no.2185
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Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré. Gericault, New York, 1969, (illus.). no.33
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École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Géricault: dessins & estampes des collections de l'École des beaux-arts, 1997, 241, (illus.). no.E.32
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Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Géricault, Paris, 1991, 389 (illus.). no.230, fig.330
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Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, Géricault: tout l'oeuvre gravé et pièces en rapport, 1981, (illus.). cat.no.32
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