WORK
AND PLAY
Printed
images of labour and leisure, 16th to 20th centuries
by European, British & American artists working
in Europe
The
complementary spheres of work and play encompass
all of mankind’s waking day.
Disraeli
wrote “ Increased means and increased leisure
are the two civilizers of man ”.
Dr
Johnson opined that “ All intellectual
improvement arises from leisure ”.
While
Cicero commented “Iuncundi acti labores” (“Completed
labours are pleasant”).
Commensurately
should one expect to find artists producing more
printed images of leisure than labour ?
On
the ‘work’ front this catalogue includes
prints of both labour and the professions - miners,
farmers and agricultural workers, fishermen, factories,
navvies, construction and demolition, house removal,
coopers, breweries, street traders, a mistletoe seller,
laundrywork, domestic household chores, a clock mender,
a violin maker, lawyers, a school pupil, a surveyor.
Some
images come into both categories, for one person’s
work is providing another’s relaxation or entertainment – as
in musicians, dancers, circus performers, bullfighters,
a chef, a lacemaker, and customs officials.
‘Pure’ leisure
is recorded in prints of the seaside, parks , cafés,
music at home and in public concerts, theatre, chess,
bowls, pub table-skittles, village cricket, art exhibitions,
boating, angling, badminton, gardening and pleasure
taken in the delights of nature.
Published
1997
44 pages, 146 items described and illustrated in black & white.
(UK
Price: £7,
International orders: £10)
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Artists
included in the catalogue:
- Abbé S
van
- Anderson
S
- Beaufrère
A
- Beham
S
- Bell
R A
- Blampied
E
- Bol
H
- Bonsey
H
- Bormann
E
- Bostock
J
- Bradfield
N
- Brangwyn
F
- Briscoe
A
- Brouet
A
- Buckton
E
- Burridge
F
- Cameron
D Y
- Chamberlain
S
- Chandler
G W
- Clausen
G
- Collaert
A
- Colley
W F
- Collins
W
- Copley
J
- Cotman
M E
- Dallas
A Chassar
- Drebbel
C J
- Dusart
C
- Fairclough
W
- Freeman
A
- Freeth
H A
- Gabain
E
- Gerritsz
H
- Gill
E
- Gillett
F
- Goaman
D
- Goltzius
H
- Grant
G
- Greengrass
W
- Hallo
C
- Hartrick
A S
- Hasse
S
- Hoberg
R
- Hoffman
J D
- Holt
G
- Huard
C
- Hutton
C
- Israels
J
- Jackson
F E
- Jennings
E O
- Jode
P de
- Jones
H
- Kirkpatrick
E
- Lambert
E
- Landseer
T
- Lee
S
- Lee-Hankey
W
- Leighton
C
- Lumsden
E S
- Mander
C van
- Matham
J
- McNab
A
- Millard
P Ferguson
- Millet
J B
- Millet
J F
- Nash
J
- Neumann
E
- Nicholson
B E
- Nixon
J
- Osborne
M
- Ostade
A van
- Passe
C van de
- Passe M van de
- Paterson V
- Pettinelli D
- Picasso P
- Pimlott P
- Power C E
- Prust
E
- Pryse
G Spencer
- Raverat
G
- Reeve
R
- Rickly
J Beard
- Rosenberg
L
- Ryckemans
C
- Sadeler
E
- Sadeler
J
- Sandby
P
- Say
W
- Sayer
H
- Schenau
J R
- Schmidt
G F
- Schmutzer
F
- Schut C
- Sealy C
- Segonzac A Dunoyer de
- Serwouters P
- Short F
- Smith
P
- Sparks
N
- Stephanus
P
- Strang
W
- Taylor
C W
- Thomas
M F
- Tiepolo G D
- Townsend S Thompson
- Turner
J M W
- Tute
G
- Unwin
F S
- Vinckboons
D
- Vos
M de
- Ward
L
- Washington
W
- Weirotter
F E
- Whistler
J M
- White
C
- Whydale
E H
- Wille
J G
- Wiseman
J H
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