File:A sail maker's loft RMG PX9841.tiff
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| Author |
Thomas Sewell Robins; William Roxby Beverley (?) |
| Description |
English: A sail maker's loft An inscription on the back of the drawing suggests that it is a design for a stage set for 'Black-eyed Susan', Douglas Jerrold's archetypal nautical melodrama of 1829. However, there was no scene in that play specified to be in a sail loft and while this could be a concept for a stage setting it is rather elaborately worked up for that. The most interesting thing about the large loft shown is that it is clearly made of ship timbers, with knees as brackets, a stair like a companion way and a set of stern-windows in the rear wall. It seems more likely that it is a a drawing in its own right, though whether for a loft that existed or one solely in the artist's imagination is unknown. This drawing has a received attribution to Beverley - who was an eminent stage scene-painter from the 1850s to 1880s - possibly because of the idea it is such a design. However, if it is not, it is also not a typical subject for him, though he showed marine watercolours at the RA between 1865 and 1880. The general style, and possibly the handwriting on the back, suggest that if not by Beverley it may be by T. S. Robins (see for example PAD 9068). |
| Date | circa 1850 |
| Dimensions | Sheet: 262 x 370 mm; Mount: 481 mm x 634 mm |
| Notes | Box Title: G20.4 Drawings. 1884-1894. |
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/139789 |
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| Identifier | Print Room Location Code: H 20.4 1889 id number: PAG9841 |
| Collection | Fine art |
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