His Shadowy Flail
| Date: | 2001
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| Medium: | Ink and pencil on paper |
| Size inches: | 22 x 30 |
| Size cm: | 55.9 x 76.2
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| Signature: | Unsigned and undated |
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| Location: | Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania |
Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Gift of the Estate of George Deem, 2014. Accession Number 2014.4.4
His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn
That ten day-labourers could not end;
Then lies him down, the lubber fiend,
And, stretched out all the chimney's length,
Basks at the fire his hairy strength
Milton,
L'Allegro lines 108-112.
The drawing is on the reverse of a photolithographic print (1979) of the painting George Washington in White Face (1974). The print, 30 x 22 inches, is signed AP 13/40 by the artist.
Reference
Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Summer, 1568, Ink on paper, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
The dates of the exhibition Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Drawings and Prints, September 25, 2001 - December 2, 2001, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art suggest 2001 as the date of this drawing.
The text
His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn
That ten day-labourers could not end;
Then lies him down, the lubber fiend,
And, stretched out all the chimney's length,
Basks at the fire his hairy strength
Milton, "L'Allegro" lines 108-112
