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Life's Ironies
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1912
Artist: John Byam Shaw
Dimensions:
Sheet: 323 × 338 mm (32.3 × 33.8 cm)
Medium: paper, ink
Object number: P.2013.9.M.1-12
DescriptionTwelve black & white plates in large landscape (without the title cover)
Mentioned in Rex Vicat Cole's The Art & Life of Byam Shaw London 1932.
Cole lists 10 pen and ink drawings on cards, he lists:
1) "The New Art! poor Beauty" - naked woman disappearing into a jumble of drawings
2) "Another's Little Sin" - young woman crying, with several men and women pointing accusing fingers
3) "Our Son's Heart and the Little Fool" - fashionable girl holding a heart between worried older couple
4) "Recreation, Rest, Romance, Pay" - golfer, man standing by armchair, Pre-Raphaelite woman
5) "The Only Son" - man struggling with pick axe and stones, mother fishin into his back pocket, son spending all the coins
6) "Yet Mary never married" - threatening man and woman on either side of pretty girl in chains
7) "The Captive" - boy in chains and over sized coat and top hat with Cupid behind him
8) "When Venus Blushed" - Venus covering her eyes, older woman in fashionable dress
9) "Mr and Mrs Fashion" - in mixture of fashions from history to 1912
10) "I wonder if" - plain woman in priest's dress being followed by a group of men
He does not list:
11) "Art 1912" - fox and poultry around a dead plant in a pot with further blooming plants on the right-hand side
12) "Venus and Mars" - row of women from Venus to 1912 on left and row of men from Mars to 1912 soldier on right
Mentioned in Rex Vicat Cole's The Art & Life of Byam Shaw London 1932.
Cole lists 10 pen and ink drawings on cards, he lists:
1) "The New Art! poor Beauty" - naked woman disappearing into a jumble of drawings
2) "Another's Little Sin" - young woman crying, with several men and women pointing accusing fingers
3) "Our Son's Heart and the Little Fool" - fashionable girl holding a heart between worried older couple
4) "Recreation, Rest, Romance, Pay" - golfer, man standing by armchair, Pre-Raphaelite woman
5) "The Only Son" - man struggling with pick axe and stones, mother fishin into his back pocket, son spending all the coins
6) "Yet Mary never married" - threatening man and woman on either side of pretty girl in chains
7) "The Captive" - boy in chains and over sized coat and top hat with Cupid behind him
8) "When Venus Blushed" - Venus covering her eyes, older woman in fashionable dress
9) "Mr and Mrs Fashion" - in mixture of fashions from history to 1912
10) "I wonder if" - plain woman in priest's dress being followed by a group of men
He does not list:
11) "Art 1912" - fox and poultry around a dead plant in a pot with further blooming plants on the right-hand side
12) "Venus and Mars" - row of women from Venus to 1912 on left and row of men from Mars to 1912 soldier on right