- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Watercolour painting showing one of a number of ideas regarding death and the afterlife
- Long description
- Large watercolour painting by Alfred Robinson showing one of a number of ideas regarding death and the afterlife, presumed to have been made to illustrate a lecture or publication by E. B. Tylor
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- English
- Person
- Maker Alfred Robinson (signed)
- Field collector Edward Burnett Tylor
- PRM source Edward Burnett Tylor
- Date / Period
- Date made: Circa 1888-1898
- Date collected
- By 1917
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1917 Found unentered: 01/1944
- Materials and processes
- Material Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Drawn, Process Painted
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1944.1.73
- Research and responses
This is a large watercolour painting by Alfred Robinson showing (according to the accession entry) one of a number of ideas regarding death and the afterlife, presumed to have been made to illustrate either a lecture (or lectures) or a publication by E. B. Tylor. [PG 27/01/2014]
This image was almost certainly used in a lecture by E. B. Tylor, for there exists a lantern slide of Robinson's painting which is labelled with the initiials 'E.B.T.' (see PRM lantern slides, 1998.387.28 (Henry Balfour), wooden box labelled 'Time-Keeping, Weighing, Smoking'). Given the current location of this lantern slide (found in a box of Henry Balfour's lantern slides), one deduces that Balfour must have used the same lantern slide in a lecture of his own. [PG 07/02/2014]
Search terms: Picture and Graphic Art, Death, Painting, Drawing