Beau leaning over a girl in bed with attendant nymphs
Watercolour
1931 (made)
1931 (made)
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Watercolour entitled 'Rococo Fantasy', possibly for 'The Rape of the Lock', depicting a beau leaning over a girl in bed, with attendant nymphs.
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Materials and techniques | Watercolour |
Brief description | Watercolour, Rococo Fantasy, by Charles Robinson, possibly for 'The Rape of the Lock', 1931. |
Physical description | Watercolour entitled 'Rococo Fantasy', possibly for 'The Rape of the Lock', depicting a beau leaning over a girl in bed, with attendant nymphs. |
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Credit line | Bequeathed by Edith Mary Robinson |
Object history | Bequeathed by Edith Mary Robinson, 1982 Historical significance: Charles Robinson (1870-1937) was a watercolour painter, illustrator and decorator. He was the son of Thomas Robinson, a wood engraver. Robinson was educated at Islington High School and Highbury School of Art and subsequently apprenticed to the lithography firm Waterlow and Son. He first came to notice in 1895 when his drawings were published in the influential magazine The Studio and he was asked to illustrate R.L. Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. Charles Robinson and his brothers William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) and Thomas Heath Robinson (1869-1950), were among the most popular illustrators of the Edwardian period. Charles Robinson was elected President of the London Sketch Club, and in 1932 was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (the RI). According to Simon Houfe, Robinson's illustrations had eclectic sources, and were 'partly inspired by the prints of Durer, partly by the Pre-Raphaelites, their space often suggestive of Japanese prints.' (1) This painting was included in a bequest of 27 works by Charles Robinson made to the V&A in 1982 by the artist's daughter, Miss Edith Mary Robinson. Note (1) Simon Houfe, The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914, London 1978, pp.435-6 (p.453). The biographical information given above is derived from this entry. |
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Literary reference | The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 1712 in two cantos (334 lines), but then revised, expanded and reissued under Pope's name on March 2, 1714, in a much-expanded 5-canto version (794 lines). The final form was available in 1717 with the addition of Clarissa's speech on good humour. |
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Accession number | P.26-1982 |
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Record created | March 16, 2012 |
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