Not on display
- Artist
- John Anster Fitzgerald 1819–1906
- Medium
- Oil paint on board
- Dimensions
- Support: 152 × 203 mm
frame: 262 × 325 × 30 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1968
- Reference
- T01083
Catalogue entry
John Austen Fitzgerald 1832-c.1908
T01083 THE FAIRY'S LAKE ? Exh. 1866
Inscribed ‘J. A Fitzgerald’ b.l.
Oil on board, 6 1/16×8 1/16 (15·4×20·5)
Purchased from Mrs Robert Frank (Elizabeth Pentland Bequest) 1968.
Coll: ...; sold Bonham's, 9 May 1968 (225), bt. Fine Art Society Ltd., from whom bt. by Mrs Robert Frank.
Exh: ? R.A. 1866 (412).
Previously titled ‘An Imp on a Bat attacking a Water-sprite’, T1083 is probably ‘The Fairy's Lake’ shown at the R.A. in 1866.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery: Acquisitions 1968-9, London 1969
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