Frederick Smallfield - Supping on Horrors

Supping on Horrors (Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club)

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Frederick Smallfield (London, 1829 - 1915)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Source
01-		Supping on Horrors by Frederick Smallfield	Original Etching	1861-62	Signed with F. Smallfield's' name within the image and also bearing the artist's name date and publisher's name, "F. Smallfield", "London, Published December 1st, 1861 by Day & Sons, Lith. to the Queen" along the lower margin of the plate.
02-		The Shoe-Black by Frederick Smallfield	Original Etching	1861-62	Bearing the artist's name, the publisher's name and date, "F. Smallfield", "London, Published December 1st, 1861 by Day & Sons, Lith. to the Queen" along the lower margin of the plate.
03.-		Winter Revels by Frederick Smallfield	Original Etching	1861-62	Bearing the artist's name, the publisher's name and date, "F. Smallfield", "London, Published December 1st, 1861 by Day & Sons, Lith. to the Queen" along the lower margin of the plate.

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The 'Junior Etching Club' (1857-1864)
The Junior Etching Club (1857-1864), was an institution that greatly contributed to the revival of Etching in England. Members included such prominent British artists as, Sir John Everett Millais, James McNeill Whistler, Sir Francis Powell, Henry Moore, Sir John Tenniel, Charles Samuel Keene, Joseph Clark, John Wright Oakes, Walter Severn, William Gale, Frederick Smallfield, Henry Clarence Whaite, Matthew James Lawless, Arthur James Lewis, Henry Stacy Marks, Charles Rossiter, Vincent Bury, Lord G. Fitzgerald, J. R. Clayton, John Sleigh, and Lord Gerald Fitzgerald. The Junior Etching Club often published their members’ etchings and all of the above named artists contributed to their portfolio, Passages from Modern English Poets, first published by Day & Son Limited, Lithographers & Publishers, London, 1862. In total, that publication contained forty-seven original etchings. The Junior Club also issued, another important publication in 1858, Passages from the Poems of Thomas Hood published by E. Gambart & Co, London. It was also illustrated by its members and contained thirty-four plates.
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01.-	Barwell		Sea Beach - Norfolk Fisherman on the Look Out (The Fisherman) by Frederick Bacon Barwell	Frederick Bacon Barwell (London, c. 1831 - 1922)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
02.-	Clark		Hagar and Ishmael by Joseph Clark	Joseph Clark (Cerne Abbas (Dorset), 1834 - Ramsgate, 1926)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
03.-	Gale		The May Wreath by William Gale	William Gale (London, 1823 - 1909)	Original Etching	1861	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
04.-	Keene		Scene of the Plague in London, 1665 by Charles Samuel Keene	Charles Samuel Keene (Hornsea, 1823 - London, 1891	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
05.-	Lawless		Sisters of Mercy by Matthew James Lawless	Matthew James Lawless (Dublin, 1837 - Bayswater, 1864)	Original Etching	1859	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
06.-	Lawless		The Little Shipwrights by Matthew James Lawless	Matthew James Lawless (Dublin, 1837 - Bayswater, 1864)	Original Etching & Aquatint	1859	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
07.-	Lewis		The Cornfield by Arthur James Lewis	Arthur James Lewis 'Arthur Lewis' (London, 1824 - 1901)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
08.-	Millais		Summer Indolence by John Everett Millais	John Everett Millais (Southampton, 1829 - London, 1896)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
09.-	Moore		Moonlight by Henry Moore	Henry Moore (York, 1831 - Margate, 1895)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
10.-	Oakes		The Last Gleam of Day by John Wright Oakes	John Wright Oakes (Middlewich (Cheshire), 1820 - London, 1887)	Original Drypoint & Etching	1859-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
11.-	Powell		The Rainbow by Sir Francis Powell	Sir Francis Powell (Pendleton, 1833 - Dunoon, Scotland, 1914)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
12.-	Rossiter		St. Valentine's Day by Charles Rossiter	Charles Rossiter (London, 1827 - 1897)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
13.-	Severn		Nearing Home by Walter Severn	Walter Severn (Frascati (near Rome), 1830 - London, 1904)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
14.-	Smallfield		Supping on Horrors by Frederick Smallfield	Frederick Smallfield (London, 1829 - 1915)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
15.-	Smallfield		The Shoe-Black by Frederick Smallfield	Frederick Smallfield (London, 1829 - 1915)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
16.-	Smallfield		Winter Revels by Frederick Smallfield	Frederick Smallfield (London, 1829 - 1915)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
17.-	Tenniel		War and Glory by Sir John Tenniel	Sir John Tenniel (London, 1820 - 1914)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
18.-	Whaite		Study of a Head by Henry Clarence Whaite	Henry Clarence Whaite (Manchester, 1828 - Conwy Valley, Wales, 1912)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
19.-	Whistler		The Punt by James McNeill Whistler	James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Lowell, MA, 1834 - London, 1903)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.
20.-	Whistler		Sketching by James McNeill Whistler	James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Lowell, MA, 1834 - London, 1903)	Original Etching	1861-62	Published by Day & Son, London, for Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862.

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Title:	Supping on Horrors
Artist:	Smallfield, Frederick (London, 1829 - 1915)
Date:	1861-62
Medium:	Original Etching
Publisher:	Day & Son, London
Edition:	Passages from Modern English Poets Illustrated by the Junior Etching Club, 1862
Note:	Frederick Smallfield: A fine English painter, watercolorist and etcher, Frederick Smallfield was most highly regarded for his figure subjects and genre scenes. He studied art in London at the Royal Academy Schools and exhibited his paintings and etchings throughout Britain for most of the last half of the nineteenth century. As well, his work was included in the prestigious annual exhibitions of the Royal Academy from 1849 to 1886. Although Frederick Smallfield was never a formal member of the famous Pre-Raphaelite movement, many scholars have linked stylistic concerns of his art to that source, particularly the etched figure studies where form and expression take precedence. Smallfield is also of importance for being one of the first Victorian era painters to seriously turn to the art of etching. He was a founding member of the Junior Etching Club (1857-1864), an institution that greatly contributed to the revival of Etching in England. Other members included Sir John Everett Millais, Henry Moore, John Tenniel, Charles Keene, M. J. Lawless and James McNeill Whistler. The Junior Etching Club often published their members’ etchings and many (including Whistler and Smallfield) contributed to their most important portfolio, Passages from Modern English Poets, printed and published during the years 1861 and 1862. Frederick Smallfield contributed four original etchings to Passages from Modern English Poets; The Shoe-Black, Winter Revels, The Chestnut Seller and Supping on Horrors.
	In 1860 Frederick Smallfield was elected an Associate of the Old Watercolour Society. Today, original examples of both his watercolours and etchings will be found in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
	Day & Son, London: Some of the most ambitious and accomplished printmaking projects of the Victorian era were launched by the publishers, Day & Son. The firm began in the mid 1820's under the title of 'Day & Hague' and assumed its more familiar name 'Day & Son, London' in 1845. Frederick Smallfield's original etching entitled, Supping on Horrors was published by 'Day & Son, London' between 1861-62. Throughout their early years they printed and published works of art dealing with a wide range of subjects, such as, hunting scenes, genre depictions and topographical views.
	Supping on Horrors: Frederick Smallfield's original etching entitled, Supping on Horrors was published by Day & Son for the portfolio, Passages from Modern English Poets. It was meant to illustrate an anonymous poem bearing the same title as this delightful etching. One should note that lying on the table in front of the terrified reader is a large sheet of paper on which the following words are printed; "Ladies Beware …. The Red Vial." I thus quote the final stanza of the anonymous poem, The watch has ceased to tick! The waning light Leaps up, flares round, sinks down, and all is night! A breath! A crash! Oh! for the coming day! He feels no fear! He simply 'faints away'. Would you, too, 'Sup on Horrors?' Make a trial Of stout pork-pasties, and 'The Blood Red Vial'"
	The etching therefore acts as a most suitable illustration to the poem, yet the image appears to have been originally created for other purposes. Frederick Smallfield based Supping on Horrors almost exclusively upon a watercolor he created several years earlier, apparently bearing the title, The Ghost Story. The large sheet of paper on the table is actually a playbill for an 1858 drama which was performed at the OLympic Theatre in the Strand. The author of The Red Vial was none other than Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), the generally acknowledged father of the British crime novel. Despite his great success with such novels as The Woman in White and The Moonstone, Collins's productions for the stage met with little approval. The Red Vial, for example, closed down after only four weeks and the play was never published.
	Set in 1820's Frankfurt, the principal characters in The Red Vial are a lunatic and a femme fatale with a talent for poisoning people. Scenes from the unsuccessful play were later adapted for Collins's 1880 novel, Jezebel's Daughter.
	It is not known if Frederick Smallfield saw The Red Vial during its four week London run. He was clearly, however, impressed enough with its "Ladies Beware" playbill to include it in his visual representation of the effects of a horror story upon a more than captivated reader.
	The Red Vial: The original playbill reads; "Royal Olimpic Theatre, Wych Street Strand, F. Robson and W. S. Emden" (Frederick Robson as Hans Grimm and Mrs. W. S. Emden as Peabody), "N. W. ---The doors will open at seven, and the performance will commence at half-past seven...", "Monday, October, 25, 1858, and During the Week...", "LADIES BEWARE!", " Colonel Vavasour - Mr. G. Cooke, Mr. George Vining - Sir Charles Vavasour, Mathilda - Miss Wyndham, Lady Beauchamp - Miss Stevens, G. Peabody - W. S. Emden...", "THE RED VIAL, Written for the Theatre by Wilkie Collins." etc.

Size:	4 3/4 X 7 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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Condition:	Printed upon wove paper and with full margins as published in Passages from Modern English Poets in 1862. Signed in the plate with the artist's 'F. S.' momogram and bearing his name date and publisher's name, "F. Smallfield", "London, Published December 1st, 1861 by Day & Sons, Lith. to the Queen" along the lower margin of the plate. It also bears the plate's number "41" to the upper right corner of the margin above the image. This impression is in excellent condition throughout without a trace of foxing or staining. Supping on Horrors stands as a superb, original example of the Victorian genre art of Frederick Smallfield. Note: a reproduction of the original playbill for The Red Vial is included.
Subject:	Frederick Smallfield, Supping on Horrors, original etching, the Junior Etching Club, Passages from Modern English Poets, Wilkie Collins, The Red Vial, Associate of the Old Watercolour Society, Victorian genre art, British artists & art.
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