Charcoal Drawing from Series “Dorothy Wordsworth”

Margaret Harrison (1940 - )

Charcoal on paper; drawing with accompanying text piece

1980

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    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Department for Culture, Media & Sport, 100 Parliament Street
    In this charcoal drawing comprised of two framed pieces, Harrison foregrounds the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), sister to the poet William Wordsworth. Harrison situates a verdant image of undergrowth above a smudged handwritten extract from Dorothy’s diary Grasmere Journal (1800–03), which William often borrowed from without acknowledgement. The cited text veers between household tasks and lyrical observations about nature, suggesting the labour that underpins romantic visions of rural England.
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    Artist
    Margaret Harrison (1940 - )
    Title
    Charcoal Drawing from Series “Dorothy Wordsworth”
    Date
    1980
    Medium
    Charcoal on paper; drawing with accompanying text piece
    Acquisition
    Purchased from the artist, November 2010
    Provenance
    the artist
    GAC number
    18356