FAMAG 1923.6
A twentieth-century British Edwardian frame, with convex top moulding, deep scotia, fillet to sight and slip or insert; finished with water-gilding. A twentieth-century British Edwardian frame, with convex top moulding, deep scotia, fillet to sight and slip or insert; finished with water-gilding.
About this work
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Tuke, Henry Scott, RA RWS (1858-1929): Study of Bathing Boys, signed and dated 1912, oil on canvas, 63.5 x 38.5 cms. Presented to the Corporation of Falmouth by A.A. de Pass, in memory of his son.
More information about the frame
Unadorned revivals and interpretations of frames as simple plain mouldings (architrave and entablature, hollow or scotia, bolection, reeded, &c.) became very popular in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. They looked forward to a new century, which might be less cluttered and covered with accreted ornament than the Victorian age, to patterns which reflected a more painterly technique, and to frames which were versatile enough to accommodate different modernist schools of art, and which were also economical to produce.
This scotia frame has antecedents in the plain ?Salvator Rosa? profile and also in Neoclassical frames; it has a classicising effect which is eminently suitable for Tuke?s depictions of naked youths and boys, like young Greek athletes, posed in sunlit landscapes.