Friday 6 November 2015

Butterfly & Moth Girls - cigarette cards - part 1

I stumbled across this set of cigarette cards in the New York Public Library Digital Collection and thought they were rather fun.Produced by the British American Tobacco Company in 1928 they're odd yet beautiful. Each of the 50 cards in the series (for some reason I could only source 49 of them) features a different butterfly girl and a description about the particular (real) butterfly or moth on the reverse.

This is part 1 of a 2 - part post on Butterfly and Moth Girls:













































































Wednesday 4 November 2015

David Roberts - part 8

David Roberts RA (1796 – 1864) was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for a prolific series of detailed lithographic prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced as watercolour sketches he made during long tours of the region between 1838 and 1840. These, along with his large format oil paintings of similar subjects, made him a prominent Orientalist artist. He became a Royal Academician in 1841.

For more information on Roberts and for earlier works, see part 1 to 7 also.


This is part 8 of an 8 - part series on David Roberts:





1859 Ruins of the Roman Forum 
oil on panel 38.5 x 62.5 cm 
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK

1859 The Forum, Rome, Italy 
oil on canvas 38.1 x 62.2 cm 
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

1859 The Palace of Minerva, Rome 
oil on panel 37.5 x 59.5 cm 
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection, Southport, UK

1860 Antwerp Cathedral, Belgium 
oil on canvas 94 x 64 cm 
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

1860 Approach to the Forum 
oil on canvas 45.7 x 91.5 cm 
Private Collection

1860 Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives 
oil on canvas 52.2 x 89.5 cm 
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, UK

1860c Greenwich Hospital from the Thames 
oil on canvas 28 x 60.9 cm 
National Maritime Museum, London

1860s Interior of Milan Cathedral
 oil on paper laid on panel 31.4 x 52.7 cm 
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1861 Chancel of the Collegiate Church of St Paul, at Antwerp 
oil on canvas 121 x 105.5 cm 
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

1861 San Giovanni e San Paolo, Venice, Italy 
oil on canvas 53 x 75 cm 
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

1861 The Houses of Parliament from Millbank, London 
oil on canvas 61 x 106 cm 
Museum of London, UK

1861 The Naval College from the River at Greenwich 
watercolour and gouache over graphite on wove paper 24.6 x 34.9 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1861 The Remains of the Roman Forum 
oil on canvas 59.7 x 120.7 cm 
Birmingham Museum of Art, UK

1862 Church of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice 
oil on canvas 67.5 x  113 cm 
Museums Sheffield, UK

1862 Egyptian Landscape with a Distant View of the Pyramids 
oil on canvas 36 x 59.5 cm 
Denver Art Museum, Colorado

1862 Interior of St Peter's, Rome 
oil on canvas 117 x 178 cm 
Hackney Museum, London

1862 The Brig o' Doon and Burns Monument 
oil on canvas 109.5 x 147.5 cm 
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Ayr, Scotland, UK

1863 Edinburgh from the Carlton Hill 
oil on canvas 51 x 76 cm 
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

1862 View on the Tiber, Rome 
oil on canvas 61.5 x 108.5 cm 
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

1863 Milan Cathedral, Italy 
oil on canvas 130 x 107 cm 
Touchstones Rochdale, UK


1863 St. Pauls from the Thames, Looking West 
oil on canvas 61 x 107 cm 
Private Collection

1863c Rome, View on the Tiber Looking Towards Mounts Palatine and Aventine 
oil on canvas 62.2 x 107.3 cm 
Beaverbrook Art gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

1864 An Entranceway at Karnak 
watercolour, brush and brown ink, over black chalk, on cream-coloured paper 50.7 x 35.8 cm 
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York

1864 Interior of the Basilica of St Peters at Rome 
oil on canvas 70.9 x 116.7 cm 
Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

n.d.  Alhambra and Albaicin

n.d. A Church Interior ( attributed to ) 
oil on canvas 52.3 x 62.4 cm 
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK

n.d. Antwerp Cathedral, Belgium 
oil on canvas 91 x 71 cm 
The Cooper Gallery, Barnsley, UK

n.d. Canal Scene with Cathedral in Background 
oil on canvas 25 x 19.5 cm 
The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, UK

n.d. Canal Scene, Venice 
oil on panel 20 x 14 cm 
Museums Sheffield, UK

n.d. Cathedral Interior 
oil on panel 17.4 x 13.7 cm 
Museums Sheffield, UK

n.d. Cathedral, France 
oil on panel 29.7 x 22.8 cm
 Museums Sheffield, UK

n.d. Church Interior 
oil on canvas 24.7 x 20 cm 
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, UK

n.d. Church of the Nativity 
oil on canvas 112 x 142 cm 
Paisley Art Institute Collection, Scotland, UK

n.d. Donaldson's College, Edinburgh 
oil on canvas 128 x 190.5 cm 
City of Edinburgh Council, UK

n.d. Entrance to the Third Pyramid 
watercolour on paper 21.6 x 15.9 cm 
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York

n.d. Fruit Sellers from the Islands, 
Venice oil on canvas 56 x 48 cm 
Private Collection

n.d. Interior of a Church ( attributed to ) 
oil on canvas 40.3 x 29.9 cm 
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, UK

n.d. Interior of a Theatre ( attributed to ) 
pen and ink 39.9 x 30.7 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

n.d. Interior of the Church of St Geneviève, Paris 
oil on canvas 78 x 62 cm 
Victoria and Albert Museum, Liverpool, UK

n.d. Interior of the Mosque of Metwalis, Cairo 
pencil and oil on paper laid on canvas 29.5 x 41.5 cm 
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, UK


n.d. Picnic Party ( attributed to ) 
oil on canvas 24.5 x 34.5 cm 
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, UK

n.d. Rome, St Peter's and Castel St Angelo 
oil on canvas 58.5 x 119.4 cm 
Temple Newsam House, Leeds Museums and Galleries, UK

n.d. Ruins of St. Andrews Cathedral and Church of St. Regulus, Fife, Scotland 
oil on canvas 91.5 x 137.2 cm 
Private Collection

n.d. Santa Maria della Salute, Venice 
oil on canvas 39.5 x 59.5 cm 
Atkinson Art Gallery Collection, UK

n.d. Sketch of the Interior of the Duomo, Milan 
oil on paper laid on canvas 53.4 x 33.7 cm

n.d. St Mark's, Venice 
oil on canvas 61 x 50.5 cm 
Wednesbury Museum & Art Gallery, UK

n.d. Studies of Sculptural Details and Kneeling Communicants at St. Gudule, Brussels 
pencil, with brown and grey-green wash, on light brown paper 35.5 x 25.4 cm 
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York

n.d. Study of a Monk ( attributed to ) 
17.2 x 13.1 cm 
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, UK

n.d. Temple Bar 
oil on canvas 90.5 x 74.5 cm 
Grundy Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

n.d. The Château at Chambord, France 
oil on panel 24 x 35 cm 
The Cooper Gallery, Barnsley, UK

n.d. The Doge's Palace, Venice 
oil on canvas 61 x 50.5 cm 
Wednesbury Museum & Art Gallery, UK

n.d. The Mausoleum of Plautus Lucanus 
45 x 89.5 cm 
Cannon Hall Museum, nr Barnsley, Yorkshire, UK

n.d. The New Palace of Westminster 
oil on canvas 38 x 71 cm 
Parliamentary Art Collection, London

n.d. The Toll House, Edinburgh 
oil on panel 25.5 x 35.5 cm 
City of Edinburgh Council, UK

n.d. The Tomb of Edward III, Westminster Abbey ( attributed to ) 
oil on canvas 92 x 80 cm 
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, UK

n.d. Toledo Cathedral 
oil on canvas 65 x 93 cm
 Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, UK

n.d. View of Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee 
oil on canvas 39.3 x 54.5 cm 
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester Arts and Museums Service, UK