Frank Craig

The Heretic

1906

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Not on display
Artist
Frank Craig 1874–1918
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
Support: 817 x 1473 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1906
Reference
N02071

Catalogue entry

N02071 THE HERETIC 1906
 
Inscr. ‘Frank Craig - 1906’ b.l.
Canvas, 32×58 (81×147).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1906.
Exh: R.A., 1906 (280).
Lit: Anon., ‘The Royal Academy Exhibition’ in Studio, XXXVIII, 1906, p.4, repr. p.11.
Repr: Royal Academy Pictures, 1906, p.i; Academy Notes, 1906, p.73.

The scene is a street in a medieval town. The heretic, a woman, leads the procession; on the right, an officer of justice carries the warrant for her execution, and farther right walks the gravedigger with his tools. Monks' accompany her, and in the background are some spectators in modern dress, one of which is a self-portrait of the artist.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I

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