That which ye have spoken in the ear shall be repeated on the housetops
Drawing
1866-1867 (drawn)
1866-1867 (drawn)
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Drawing
Object details
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| Title | That which ye have spoken in the ear shall be repeated on the housetops (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Chalk on grey paper |
| Brief description | Drawing, Study for the painting 'That which ye have spoken in the ear shall be repeated on the housetops' [sic], 1866-1867 by Alfred W. Elmore RA |
| Physical description | Drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed A Elmore RA |
| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Object history | According to Rodney Searight: - 'Bt Holder, Sept. 1971, £12'. |
| Historical context | The painting for which this is a study was exhibited at the RA in 1867 (184) with the title 'That which ye have spoken in the ear shall be repeated on the housetops'. [This is a garbled version of a text from the Bible, Luke 12:3, which actually runs in the King James Bible as: - `...that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.'] There was a subtitle to the picture: - `Stepping from the doorway that opened on the roof, the mistress of the mansion clapped her hands, and the neighbouring portion of that aerial population came flocking across the narrow boundaries and low parapets of the housetops to listen to the tale of scandal just narrated to us, etc., etc.. The reviewer of the 1867 exhibition for the Art Journal wrote of Elmore's `recent journey to Algiers' (AJ, June 1867, p.137). Since Elmore had not exhibited at the RA in 1866, his visit to Algeria was presumably during that year. See also SD.1351. |
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| Literary reference | The Bible: Luke 12: 3 |
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| Accession number | SD.367 |
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| Record created | January 17, 2008 |
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