ID: 700008161 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008161	Record Type: Movable Work

Fourteen Scenes Related to the Tale of Tom Thumb (drawing (visual work); Oswald Adalbert Sickert (British, 1828 - 1885) (British Arti...; about 1851; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2009.21)

Note: The proposed donation shows a series of illustrations related to the story of Tom Thumb. This diminutive nursery tale character, popular throughout Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, was made especially relevant in nineteenth-century Germany by the publication of Ludwig Bechstein's illustrated fables, which included "Der kleine Daumling." Sickert contributed a number of designs for the broadside series Münchner Bilderbogen, a series of often humerous prints that were published by Braun and Schneider starting in 1841. The print based on the present drawing, "Der kleine Däumerling" (Tom Thumb) appeared in volume 3 of the Bilderbogen series in 1851 as number 64. The proposed donation shows how Sickert anticipated the engraver's method in his controlled, linear manner of rendering each distinct scene. At the same time Sickert also used the opportunity to explore different narrative episodes for illustration; of the fourteen scenes that he represented only twelve were adapted for reproduction in print form. In short, this drawing is not only an amusing representation of a figure from popular nineteenth-century literature but it also gives an insight into how draftsmen worked in collaboration with printmakers and print publishers.

Titles:

Fourteen Scenes Related to the Tale of Tom Thumb (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1851

Creator Display:

Oswald Adalbert Sickert (British, 1828 - 1885) (British Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

Sickert, Oswald Adalbert (British painter and draftsman, 1828-1885) [500090790]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2009.21

Credit Line: Gift of Thomas and Gianna Le Claire

Other: Creation: Deutschland [7000084] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Graphite on off-white, wove paper

	graphite (mineral) [300011098]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, mineral)

	wove paper [300014187]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by production method>)

Dimensions: 38.1 x 31.8 cm (15 x 12 1/2 in.)

Cultures:

British (preferred)

General Subject:

literary (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Tom Thumb [901000801]
	.....((Literary characters, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

Inscriptions: Sickert incribed in pen and black ink, at lower right; 'B 979a' and '439' in graphite in lower right and upper left, respectively; collector's mark of Otto Meyer (L.1994) on verso with incription in pen and brown ink: 'Münchner Bilderbogen von Braun & Schneider' and '1869'; '510' also inscribed on verso in graphite

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Fourteen Scenes Related to the Tale of Tom Thumb	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM,VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)