id:			170713
accession number:	2013.238
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.238
updated:		2023-03-22 03:04:57.368000

Barnaby Rudge Helping Lead the Gordon Riots, 1884. Charles Green (British, 1840–1898). Watercolor with traces of graphite; sheet: 25.4 x 17.6 cm (10 x 6 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz 2013.238

title:				Barnaby Rudge Helping Lead the Gordon Riots
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series:				
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creation date:			1884
creation date earliest:		1884
creation date latest:		1884
current location:		
creditline:			Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz
copyright:			

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culture:	England, 19th century
technique:	watercolor with traces of graphite
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - British
type:		Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Charles Green (British, 1840–1898)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 25.4 x 17.6 cm (10 x 6 15/16 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	sturdy-weight, blued-white, moderately textured, wove paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	initialed and dated, in brown ink, at lower right: CG / 1884
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art 
	opening date:   2013-02-10T00:00:00
	<i>British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art </i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Victorian Era Exhibition, Historical and Commemorative Sections</em>. Earl's Court, London (August 1897).

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PROVENANCE

	William Lockwood, Nottingham
	date: ?-?
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	(Ramiel M. Howitt, London)
	date: 1979
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	Helen and Albert Borowitz, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: after 1979-2013
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2013-
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fun fact:
This drawing was never published as an illustration, but the character of Barnaby appeared in Charles Green's design for a title page for an edition of Dickens's collected works.

digital description:
Charles Green was one of the most successful black-and-white illustrators in Victorian England, known especially for his images related to the novels of Charles Dickens. The subject of this drawing relates to the writer's historical novel <em>Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty</em>, based on the Gordon Riots. Here, Green depicted participants in an anti-Catholic protest against the Papists' Act of 1778, the most violent outpouring of religious hatred in 18th-century Britain.

wall description:

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Victorian Era Exhibition, 1897: Catalogue, Historical and Commemorative Sections</em>. Exh. Cat. London: Earl's Court, 1897.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 33, no. 69
	url:		https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t2r55jj4h

	Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 128-29, 146, no. 43; Reproduced: p. 129
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IMAGES

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