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Arthur Burdett Frost caricature
Decorator: Barnard, Frederick
Square, white earthenware tile with over-glaze image painted in brown enamel.
A gawky, bearded, young man, wearing an ill-fitting check suit and high collar, stands pigeon-toed looking at a dog. The dog, a dachshund or similar, is performing tricks – standing on its forelegs and winding its tail around its raised rear body. At right is an American flag above the initials A.B.F (part of the ‘F’ rubbed away), below which is the inscription ‘The […] Frost on record’. The tile is an industrially produced blank, from pressed dust; on the reverse is an impressed diamond pattern. It is fixed in a (later) wooden frame and stand.
History note: Bequeathed by Miss Dorothy Barnard, the artist’s daughter
Bequeathed by Miss Dorothy Barnard, the artist’s daughter
Height: 15.2 cm
Width: 15.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1949) by Barnard, Dorothy
19th Century, Late#
Production date:
circa
AD 1880
Fred(erick) Barnard (1846-96), the son of a silversmith, was an illustrator, caricaturist, genre painter and portraitist. After training in Paris, he contributed to journals, such as 'Punch', ‘Harper’s Weekly’ and the 'Illustrated London News' and became known as an illustrator of Dickens and Bunyan. He also showed large-scale canvasses at the Royal Academy which commented on urban social conditions; a reviewer greeted his ‘Saturday Night in the East End’, 1876, as amongst ‘the most remarkable illustrations of London low-life […] full of grime and flare, and of human uncouthness’. He settled for a time in Broadway, Gloucestershire, where John Singer Sargent painted his wife Alice Faraday (‘Mrs Frederick Barnard’, 1885), and his two daughters Polly and Dorothy (‘Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’, 1885-86) [Tate, nos. N05901 and N01615] , and his neighbours included Henry James and Edmund Gosse, the latter recording him wearing an ‘enormous stage slouch hat’. The Fitzwilliam Museum also holds a portrait of Dorothy Barnard, the donor, painted by Sargent in 1889.
One of a series of seven tiles, each depicting a fellow contemporary artist, this design is a caricature of Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928), an American illustrator and graphic artist. Though color blind, Frost illustrated more than ninety books as well as journals such as Harper's Weekly and Life magazine. An ardent sportsman, he also produced dramatic hunting and shooting watercolours, oils and prints. In 1877- 1878, Frost came to London to study with other cartoonists, and worked with Barnard, Charles Green and others on a Household Edition of Dickens novels published by Chapman & Hall. Later he published stories formed of sequential drawings with captions, a form that would develop into comic strips.
Decoration composed of enamel ( brown) clear glaze
Dust pressing : White earthenware tiles, painted overglaze with brown enamel
Accession number: C.5F-1949
Primary reference Number: 15297
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Arthur Burdett Frost caricature" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/15297 Accessed: 2024-12-18 15:20:23
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