The New Creation - Awakening
Artist
Phoebe Anna Traquair
(Dublin, Ireland, 1852 - 1936)
Date1887
Mediumoil on canvas (set in oak frame)
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsOverall: Height: 33.5 cm, Width: 27.5 cm
Frame: Height: 69.7 cm, Width: 64 cm
Oak Panel: 58.5 cm x 49 cm
Frame: Height: 69.7 cm, Width: 64 cm
Oak Panel: 58.5 cm x 49 cm
AcquisitionPurchased in 1988 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions and the Friends of Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums.
CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0
LocationOn Display - Gallery 14
Object numberABDAG009652
About MePhoebe Anna Traquair was a leading exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement in Scotland. This work illustrates the Last Judgement and is inscribed with the third verse of William Blake's introduction to his 'Songs of Experience'. Twelve roundels describe the First Coming, with scenes from Genesis. These scenes prefigure the Second Coming, when all mankind is called to Judgement, depicted along the top of the composition. One of the chosen is crowned with flowers. To either side figures in white shrouds await their own judgement. Some of these are identifiable as portraits of artists, including the Pre-Raphaelites D.G. Rossetti, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, whose work Traquair admired greatly.
More About Me
This work illustrates the Last Judgement and is inscribed with the third verse of William Blake's introduction to his 'Songs of Experience'.
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