A female figure comes out of a cupboard on top of which three doll-like figures wait, one of which holds a club. Etching by F. Carter, 1908.
- Carter, Frederick.
- Date:
- 1908
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- 37547i
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Described by the artist as "The three familiars, Pierrot, Harlequin and Punchinello, ready for the great coup. The family skeleton comes out, bony and bedizened, with mincing steps and ghastly leer. The adroit Punchinello stands with baton poised to deliver the blow, unexpected and crushing, which will beat into rags and dust the grinning image of old folly" (Clark, pp. 27-28)
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1908
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1 print : etching ; platemark 19.4 x 10.3 cm
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"The skeleton in the cupboard." F. Carter Nov. 21 1908
References note
Richard Grenville Clark, Frederick Carter A.R.E. 1883-1967 : a study of his etchings, Guildford 1998, no. 4 and p. 27
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Credit line: Wellcome Collection 37547i / © RG Clark
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Copyright in this work is held by Richard Grenville Clark, Literary and artistic executor of Frederick Carter. Mr Clark has permitted copies to be made for purposes which are both non-commercial and broadly educational, provided that the stipulated credit line appears in the publication (letter from Mr Clark to the Wellcome Institute 11 March 1999)
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