Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Sir Stanley Spencer, 1891–1959, British
Title:
Deposition
Date:
1910
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite, with scraping out on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 5/16 x 9 3/4 inches (36.4 x 24.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, center left to center right on back: "From [?Grindelwald] to | [?Interlaken] - over | the [?Western] Alps + | through [?Lauterbrunnen] to [...]"; inscribed in graphite, center on back: "[...] [...] [...] | 2 [...] [...]"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on back: "5" (encircled)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
© Estate of the Artist
Accession Number:
B1984.27.1
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
Christianity | melancholy | thief | figures | religious | sepia | execution | crucifixion | martyr | sin | New Testament | narrative | Passion of Christ | descent from the cross: Christ is taken down from the cross, usually by Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathaea who are standing on the ladders (both arms of Christ detached) | figure study | religious and mythological subject | death
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
20th Century Works on Paper (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, pp. 30, 31, no. 123, fig. 21, N590.2 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Andrew Causey, Stanley Spencer : art as a mirror of the self, Lund Humphries, Surrey, England, 2014, p. 16, 18, 19, pl. 6, NJ18.Sp35 C38 2014 (YCBA)

Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, pp. 30, 31, no. 123, fig. 21, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10158