Title
Tracing of study of dead lion for 'David's first victory'
(1868)
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Dead lion
- Date
- (1868)
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil, watercolour on ochre tracing paper
- Dimensions
- 14.1 x 22.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 114.1978
- Copyright
- Artist information
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William Strutt
Works in the collection
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About
This is a preparatory study for the painting 'David's first victory' 1868, in the Gallery's collection. Its subject is from 1 Samuel 17 in the Bible:
'And David said unto Saul, thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth; and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God'.
This tracing was made so that the drawing of the lion could be considered in reverse, which is how the animal appears in the painting.
excerpt from Hendrik Kolenberg, Anne Ryan and Patricia James, '19th century Australian watercolours, drawings & pastels in the Gallery's collection', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 07 Aug 1993–24 Oct 1993
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Renée Free and Rose Peel, Dreams and realities: Victorian works on paper, Sydney, 1993, 11.
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Hendrik Kolenberg, 19th century Australian watercolours, drawing and pastels from the Gallery's collection, 'Introduction', pg. 6-16, Sydney, 2005, 9.
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