The Bard (painting)
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| Artist | John Martin |
| Year | 1817 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, historical landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 127 cm × 101.6 cm (50 in × 40.0 in) |
| Location | Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut |
The Bard is an 1817 historical landscape painting by the British artist John Martin. Inspired by the 1757 poem The Bard by Thomas Gray, it depicts a scene during the Conquest of Wales by Edward I. A Welsh bard shouts defiance at the army of Edward from a rock over the River Conwy before throwing himself to his death.[1] Conwy Castle (completed later by Edward) can be seen in the distance.[2]
It featured at the Royal Academy's 1817 Summer Exhibition at Somerset House and at the British Institution the following year. In 1822, it was part of Martin's one-man show at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly.[3] The painting is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Rogers p.302-3
- ^ Alexander p.XXX
- ^ Myrone p.76
- ^ https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:923
Bibliography
[edit]- Alexander, Michael. Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England. Yale University Press, 2017.
- Myrone, Martin. John Martin: Apocalypse. Tate Publishing, 2012.
- Rogers, Pat. The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2001.
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