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The Blue Bird about to fly

Watercolour
1911 (made)
Artist/Maker
Robinson, Frederick Cayley (ARA, RWS) (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Illustration in watercolour of two children holding a blue bird about to fly.


Object details

Categories
Illustration
Drawings
Watercolours
Object type
Watercolour
TitleThe Blue Bird about to fly (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour and gouache on paper
Watercolour (Paint)
Gouache
Drawing
Watercolour Painting (Technique)
Brief description
The Blue Bird about to fly, illustration to Maeterlinck's 'The Bird Blue'. Watercolour by F.C Robinson.
Physical description
Illustration in watercolour of two children holding a blue bird about to fly.
Dimensions
  • Height: 58.4cm
  • Width: 50.8cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Style
British School
Marks and inscriptions
'Cayley Robinson. 1911' (Signed and dated)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Claude D. Rotch
Object history
Along with P.81-1962 this water-colour was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries ‘Water-colour drawings illustrating Maeterlinck’s “The Blue Bird” by F. Cayley Robinson”, November to December 1911 (Nos. 52 and 50 respectively).
Subject depicted
Bird
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
  • Along with P.82-1962 this was exhibited in the following exhibition at Kunsthal Sint-Pietersabdij, 8th December 2011 to 22nd April 2012 but was not referenced in the catalogue. André Capiteyn (ed.) L’Oiseau bleu. A la recherché du bonheur exhibition catalogue (Gent: Editions Snoek, 2011)
  • Catalogue of an exhibition of water-colour drawings illustrating Maeterlinck's "The blue bird" by F. Cayley Robinson, A.R.W.S., London : Ernest Brown & Phillips, 1911 no.50
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
P.82-1962

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Record createdJanuary 25, 2011
Record URL
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