Download/Print Selected Image
- Title:
The Song of the Shirt [2023, YCBA]
- Former Title(s):
"For Only One Short Hour"
- Date:
- 1854
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 18 1/2 × 15 1/2 inches (47 × 39.4 cm), Frame: 23 1/2 × 20 1/4 inches (59.7 × 51.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in brown paint, lower left: "1854 | Anna Blunden"; and in red paint in lower left corner: "Anna E. Blunden 1854”
Inscribed on the back of the painting: “Miss E. Blunden | 26 City Road, Finsbury | For only one short hour | To feel as I used to feel | The Song of the Shirt”
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1993.23
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1993.23FR
- Subject Terms:
- architecture | attic (interior space) | boxes (containers) | buildings | candle | chimney | city | cityscape | clouds | dawn | furniture | morning | portrait | prayer | rooftops | seamstress | sewing box | shirt | spool | steeple | thread | window | window sill | woman
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:6257
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Art in Focus : Women at Yale (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-04-08 - 2020-08-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Artist as Narrator - Nineteenth Century Narrative Art in England and France (Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2005-09-08 - 2005-12-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists (Southampton City Art Gallery, 1998-05-30 - 1998-08-02) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 1998-03-07 - 1998-05-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Artist as narrator, nineteenth century narrative art in England and France. , Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, 2005, pp. 81, 133, no. 5, ND1452 G7 A77 2005 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Beth Harris, Famine and fashion : needlewomen in the nineteenth century, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT, 2005, pp. 27-29, fig. 8, HD6073 .C6 H37 2005 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Susan P. Casteras, A Struggle for Fame: Victorian women artists and authors, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1994, pp. 27, 50, pl. 4, N6796 C27 1994 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Frank Q. Christianson, Philanthropic discourse in Anglo-American literature, 1850-1920, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, Accessed January 22, 2023, pp. 169-70, fig. 7.4, ProQuest Ebook Central [ORBIS]
Cameron Dodworth, Illuminating the darkness : the naturalistic evolution of Gothicism in the nineteenth-century British novel and visual art [PhD Dissertation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln], Lincoln, NE, Accessed January 21, 2023, pp. 112-114, fig. 8, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global [ORBIS]
Teri J Edelstein, They sang 'The Song of the Shirt' : the visual iconography of the seamstress, Victorian Studies, vol. 23, Winter 1980, pp. 190-192, fig. 2, DA550 .V53 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Jan Marsh, Pre-Raphaelite women artists : Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1997, pp. 63, 108, no. 5, N6767.5 .P7 M384 1997 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Helen Nina Taylor, 'Too individual an artist to be a mere echo' : female Pre-Raphaelite artists as independent professionals, British Art Journal, vol. 12, Winter 2011-2012, pp. 53-5, pl. 1, N6761 .B74 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Rosemary Treble, Victorian and post-Victorian paintings, Burlington Magazine, vol. 122, November 1980, pp. 785, 787, fig. 108, N1 .B87 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Patricia Zakinski, Representing female artistic labour, 1848-1890 : refining work for the middle-class woman, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT, 2006, pp. 27, 30, fig. 1.2, HD6136 .Z25 2006 (YCBA) [YCBA]