From 'The Task': 3995/6

Materials used in production

Brown ink
Brown wash
Blue wash
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper ( laid down on card)
Sight Size Height 190 mm Width 365 mm

Techniques used in production

Drawing : Pen and brown ink, and brown ink used with the tip of the brush, brown and blue wash over traces of graphite on paper, laid down on card

Inscription or legends present

• Text: GEO JONES RA
• Location: Lower right
• Method of creation: Brush
• Type: Signature

• Text: Cowper's Task
• Location: Verso, centre
• Method of creation: Ink

• Text: The impious challenge of power divine / Was now to learn that Heaven, though slow to wrath, / Is never with impunity defied. / His house, as he had caught his master's mood, / Snorting, and starting into sudden rage, / Unbidden, and not now to be controlled, / Rusehd to the cliff and having reached it, stood. / At onece the shock unseated him, he flew / Sheer o'er the craggy barrier" ..... / The winterwalk at / noon The Task-Cowper
• Location: Verso, lower right
• Method of creation: Ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3995/6
Primary reference Number: 11699
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints