'The Earnshaw Family by the Fireside', Lady Edna Clarke Hall

Artwork details

Artist

Lady Edna Clarke Hall (1879‑1979)

Title

The Earnshaw Family by the Fireside

Date c.1899

MediumInk, watercolour and gouache on paper

Dimensionssupport: 356 x 254 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Presented by Mrs F. Samuel, Mrs E. Bishop and Michel H. Salaman through the Contemporary Art Society 1941

Reference

N05421

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Catalogue entry

N05421 THE EARNSHAW FAMILY BY THE FIRESIDE

Not inscribed.
Pen and sepia wash, heightened with white, 14×10 (35·5×25).
Presented by Mrs F. Samuel, Mrs E. Bishop and Michel H. Salaman through the Contemporary Art Society 1941.
Coll: As for N05418.

Old Earnshaw on his return from Liverpool, where he found Heathcliff abandoned, is showing the child to his wife and children: ‘He threw himself into a chair, laughing and groaning and bid them stand off, for he was nearly killed.... We crowded round and over Miss Cathy's head I had a peep at a dirty, ragged black-haired child’ (Chapter 4)… (read more)