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Gainsborough's Cottage Door: Charity and Sensibility
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on December 22, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
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Pigs, common, contemplation, prosperous, duty, working, career, fate, insignificant, Sea, responsibility, age, rural, children, stage, sensibility, theatrical, Ireland, meager, forest, empathy, Ostade, Cottage, soup, indigent, gaze, 1770, Wollstonecraft, 1784
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Charity and Sensibility
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Gainsborough painted this painting towards the end of his
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one of several pictures on this theme
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how the representation of the poor and the theme of charity became part of the civic culture of the 18th century
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many of Gainsborough's works include references to labor and the class
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one theme was impoverished mothers and their
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presented with the aim of
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1. eliciting sympathy with the viewer
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2. reminding the public of its own capacity for carrying out good works
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Door series
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show country folk gathering around a cottage door
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using in the clearing in a
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the theme first appeared about
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many paintings
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18 published drawings on the theme
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many show a mother with a baby in her arms
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sometimes accompanied by other women
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surrounded by other children ranging in
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sometimes a dog plays with the children
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in one portrait, pigs are feeding nearby
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feeling evoked
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a happy but not a rural life
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innocence and simplicity
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draws attention to poverty in the English countryside
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gentleness and complacency
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related to strands of the culture of
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an interest in sensation
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style, palette, lighting
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devices
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palette is high pitched, designed to draw the eye of the viewer
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the composition is closed as though it might be on a
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content
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lesson of charity
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the viewer may conclude that it is the of the well-to-do to fee sympathy for and assist the poor
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especially mothers and their babies
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Charity Relieving Distress
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landscapes
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1783 A Piece, A Calm
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a brush stroke was so scratchy
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difficult to make out subject of the work
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emulated Rubens, Claude, Rosa, Murillo
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admired the work of Adriaen van , Jacob van Ruisdael, and Aelbert Cuyp
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pictures show evidence of rapid enclosure of land
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the poor being driven through a countryside with carts laden with their possessions
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concerned with the social reality of the English countryside
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"to him that feels it with great sensibility, a mind able to see common incidents in their real state is disposed by very common incidents to very serious "
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in valuing what is seemingly , sensibility set a store by things that seemed meaningless and was moved with profound feeling in the presence of the ordinary
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sensibility is an interest in and an awareness to others, and an ability to enter into them
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the ability to feel with another
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studies of the ordinary
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but also about
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predominantly about women and usually more than one figure
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some only pictured one woman
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Housemaid
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Girl with
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more commonly, he represents women and children
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figures performing labor
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man returning to cottage
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none of the figures look out at the viewer
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aware that they are the subject of the
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life is too busy for that
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clothing is simple if not ragged
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child eating
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another child reaches for it
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Gainsborough had a concern for the care of mothers and their children
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he was involved with the London Founding Hospital
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painted of the hunger suffered by rural women and their children
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some say, however, that the child figures appear to be relatively well fed and attractive
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he shows the rural poor in a palatable manner
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literature that refers to impoverished mothers and their children
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no society could be happy when more than half the members are poor and miserable
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it was the role of aristocratic and middle class women in particular to perform acts of charity
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they should visit poor cottages and relieve their necessities
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Mary
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when a governess in
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visited the cabins of the poor
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tender sympathy and wholesome counsels to the and industrious cottages
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given the number of paintings of the poor
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we can conclude the Gainsborough had an interest in the of the rural working women and their children
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as a man of sensibility, it was his to teach these sentiments to others
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