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objectid ObjectID	object_number Object Number	sort_number Sort Number	mnemonic Mnemonic	classification Classification	culture Culture	period Period	display_name Display Name	alpha_sort Alpha Sort	object_name Object Name	title_sort Title Sort	date Date	begin_date Begin Date	medium_materials Medium/Materials	dimensions Dimensions	description Description	credit_line Credit Line	webdescription WebDescription
190098	LEEAG.0550.PL	LEEAG 550PL	Fine Art	Paintings, Prints and Drawings			Philip Redford	Redford, Philip	print	The Jump I	1979		aquatint	Image (Jump I): 172 x 138mm Paper (Jump I): 575 x 375mm Image (Jump IV): 145 x 192mm Mount (Jump I): 630 x 480mm Paper (Jump IV): 575 x 375mm Mount (Jump IV): 630 x 480mm	(The Jump I): Aquatint and xx print in black ink of a headless nude in stages of a jump. Arms are in towards the body. (The Jump IV): Aquatint and xx print in black ink of a headless nude in stages of a jump with arms outstretched.		A retired Senior Lecturer from Leeds Metropolitan University, artist Phil Redford now solely practices as a painter, printmaker and book maker. Born in 1943, he studied at Brighton Art College from 1960 to 1966 and worked as a printmaking tutor at Leeds Art College/Metropolitan University from 1967 …
41502	LEEAG.1858.0133	LEEAG 1858 133	Fine Art	Paintings, Prints and Drawings	British	Late 18th century	Gainsborough Dupont	Dupont, Gainsborough	painting	Portrait of the Rt Hon William Pitt	c 1792	1782	oil on canvas	object height (support): 762mm object width (support): 635mm	This is a head and shoulders portrait of William Pitt. He wears a black jacket with large buttons over a white shirt.	Donated by J. G. Uppleby, 1858.	William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) followed his father as the greatest statesman of his generation. He became Chancellor of the Exchequer at the age of 23 and Prime Minister at 24. He was responsible for a period of political stability following the turbulent years of the American War of Indepen…
41504	LEEAG.1858.0249	LEEAG 1858 249	Fine Art	Paintings, Prints and Drawings		18th century	Giovanni Paolo Panini	Panini, Giovanni Paolo	painting	Roman Ruins with the Blind Belisarius	1730	1730	Oil on canvas	object height (support): 1321mm object width (support): 1423mm	Landscape of ruins with several figures in foreground and background. The ruins in the background has four statues positioned on it. In the bottom right hand corner there is a dog stood near a stone slab.	Given by J.G. Uppleby, 1858	Ruin pictures or 'capricci' of Rome, incorporating views of well-known or imaginary monuments of Antiquity, were bought avidly by Grand Tourists in the 18th century. G.P. Pannini had a particularly successful studio specialising in such scenes, often contriving to re-arrange the ruins.
41535	LEEAG.1891.0001	LEEAG 1891 1	Fine Art	Paintings, Prints and Drawings			Lord Frederic Leighton	Leighton, Frederic Lord	painting	The Return of Persephone	1891	1891	oil on canvas	object height (support): 2030mm object width (support): 1524mm frame: 2460 × 2040 × 155mm	study for the painting at Leighton House and the BM Subject: classical	Given by Sir James Kitson,1891	In ancient Greek myth, Persephone, abducted by Hades, is doomed to live half the year in the Underworld. Leighton depicts the moment when, with the onset of spring, she can temporarily rejoin her mother Demeter, the goddess of grain and fertility, on earth. Leighton was sometimes criticised for the …
41621	LEEAG.1897.0057	LEEAG 1897 57	Fine Art	Paintings, Prints and Drawings	British	Late 19th century	John Atkinson Grimshaw	Grimshaw, John Atkinson	painting	Iris	1886	1886	oil on canvas	object height (support): 813mm object width (support): 1220mm Framed: 1640 x 1250 mm	Iris, a winged female nymph hovers above a pool of water with water lilies floating on it. The pool of water is surrounded by trees. Subject: classical	Bought through the Corporation Fund, 1897	This, the last painting Grimshaw exhibited at the Royal Academy, was the first Grimshaw picture to enter the Leeds collection, bought with the Corporation Fund for Ł110. Grimshaw painted several versions, fairies and nymphs being a popular Victorian subject that permitted an erotic charge sanctioned…
41622	LEEAG.1897.0059	LEEAG 1897 59	Fine Art	Paintings, Prints and Drawings	British	Late 19th century	John Atkinson Grimshaw	Grimshaw, John Atkinson	painting	Nightfall down the Thames	1880	1880	oil on board	object height (support): 406mm object width (support): 635mm Framed: 660 x 890 mm	The River Thames stretches into the distance where the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral is visible under a moonlit, cloudy sky. Sail boats line the banks of the river. Subject: townscape	Bought from Walter Battle, 1897.	From 1880 Grimshaw began to paint London and the Thames. The atmosphere in the capital was a particular attraction, with its dense fogs and river mists.
41641	LEEAG.1900.0188	LEEAG 1900 188	Fine Art	Paintings, Prints and Drawings	Christian	Mid 18th century	William Williams	Williams, William	painting	Kirkstall Abbey	1780-1790	1780	oil on canvas	object height (support): 1016mm object width (support): 1270mm	view of Kirkstall Abbey ruins (with collapsed tower), from river	Moved from the City Museum, 1997.	This painting of Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds, shows the ruined Cistercian monastery after the tower collapsed in 1779. During the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries the ruins of the abbey attracted the attention of a small number of historians and artists, but the growing Romantic Movement, with…
41663	LEEAG.1904.0210	LEEAG 1904 210	Fine Art	Paintings, Prints and Drawings	British		Paul Sandby	Sandby, Paul	watercolour	Roche Abbey, Yorkshire	c 1769?	1759	watercolour, bodycolour, ink, paper	Image: 465 x 720mm Frame: 713 x 945mm	Watercolour of a heavily wooded and overgrown aspect of Roche Abbey in the late 18th century.		This may be the watercolour exhibited by Sandby at the first Royal Academy exhibition in 1769. The ruins stand in the grounds of Sandbeck Park, South Yorkshire. The artist drew them from a different viewpoint for an engraving published in The Virtuosi's Museum between 1778 and 1781. The viewer is su…
41669	LEEAG.1906.0007.SW	LEEAG 1906 7SW	Fine Art	Paintings, Prints and Drawings	British	Late 19th/early 20th century	Sir Frank Brangwyn	Brangwyn, Frank Sir	painting	Navvies at work	1904-1905	1904	oil on canvas	object height (support): 1651mm object width (support): 5410mm	Subject: Work.	Presented by Sam Wilson, 1906	In 1905, Brangwyn was invited to decorate the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The panel paintings, 'Navvies at Work', 'The Rolling Mill', 'The Blacksmiths', and 'The Potters' were subsequently purchased by Sam Wilson, owner of Bean Ing Mill, and presented to the newly established Leeds City…
41670	LEEAG.1906.0008.SW	LEEAG 1906 8SW	Fine Art	Paintings, Prints and Drawings	British	Late 19th/early 20th century	Sir Frank Brangwyn	Brangwyn, Frank Sir	painting	The Rolling Mill or the Workers in Steel	1904-1905	1904	oil on canvas	object height (support): 1651mm object width (support): 5410mm	Subject: Work.	Presented by Sam Wilson, 1906	In 1905, Brangwyn was invited to decorate the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The panel paintings, 'Navvies at Work', 'The Rolling Mill', 'The Blacksmiths', and 'The Potters' were subsequently purchased by Sam Wilson, owner of Bean Ing Mill, and presented to the newly established Leeds City…


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