Three people plucking mandrake. Gouache by Robert Bateman, 1870.

Robert Bateman

Date:: [1870]

Reference:: 44691i

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Description

Witches or "cunning folk" using cords to pull up a mandrake plant growing near the foot of the gallows

Publication/Creation

[1870]

Physical description

1 painting : gouache on paper ; paper 31.2 x 45.8 cm

Contributors

Robert Bateman

References note

Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum organised by Henry S. Wellcome, 54A, Wigmore Street, London W., 1913, p. 15 ("Corridor I. ... 1. Gathering mandrakes. E. Bateman")

Amanda Kavanagh, 'Robert Bateman: a true Victorian', Apollo, September 1989, vol. 130, pp. 174-179 and 218

Andrew Wilton and Robert Upstone (editors), The age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones & Watts: symbolism in Britain, 1860-1910, London 1997, pp. 42, 121-122

Lionel Lambourne, Victorian painting, London 1999, p. 443

Alison Smith (ed.), Watercolour, London 2011, p. 155

Preraffaelliti: rinascimento moderno, Milan: Dario Cimorelli, 2024, pp. 338, 535 (catalogue entry by Caterina Franciosi, no. IX.10)

Ed Simon, 'Practical advice for discerning "Cunning folk"', The wild hunt: pagan news and perspectives, online, 28 April 2024, https://wildhunt.org/2024/04/practical-advice-for-discerning-cunning-folk.html

Reference

Wellcome Collection 44691i

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in 'Preraffaelliti: rinascimento moderno' at Musei di San Domenico, Forli, Italy, 23rd February - 30th June 2024.