{"id":688,"date":"2012-06-15T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/?p=688"},"modified":"2012-06-26T09:35:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T09:35:01","slug":"one-for-the-royal-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"One for the Royal Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Emin-Queen-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-689\" title=\"Emin Queen \" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Emin-Queen-copy-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Emin-Queen-copy-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Emin-Queen-copy-752x1024.jpg 752w, https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Emin-Queen-copy.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the headgear that does it. Gives it away completely. Without it you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be none the wiser. But the miner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lamp makes it beyond any doubt. This is the Professor of Drawing at work on her most important finished presentation piece yet, a celebration of the Wigan pit girls of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century. Such economy of line, every mark counts, each and every one assertive, the impact one of dedication and duty, such superb proportion and foreshortening. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as though she was born to draw. So exact is its depiction you could have that miner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lamp made by an artisan in an afternoon. Every detail is there. Likewise the smock. What seamstress couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t run up that durable uniform. She looked exhaustively at hundreds of photographs of pit girls in order to get the portrayal just so. Another triumph for the professor. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153People have forgotten how hard these girls worked for a living wage what kept em in grinding poverty,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the Professor in expansive mode. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They got a lot of stick for being manual but they were amazingly hard working and very glamorous,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The pit girl is included in the latest exhibition put on by the professor \u00e2\u20ac\u201c she has not after all enjoyed a show of recent work for upwards of six weeks. The new exhibition is in her home town, Margate, which is said to be reborn as a result of its association with her. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She is good for the town,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Mrs Margi Doonham of Nottingham. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The cake shop has never been busier. And there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more condoms in bus shelters than ever before. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as though the 1950s are back again with crowds piling in on Bank Holiday specials. Long live the Professor. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be Dame Professor soon, and why not?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Jackdaw June 2012<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the headgear that does it. Gives it away completely. Without it you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be none the wiser. But the miner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lamp makes it beyond any doubt. This is the Professor of Drawing at work on her most important finished presentation piece yet, a celebration of the Wigan pit girls of the 19th century. Such economy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[40,85,86,83,84,79],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leader","tag-david-lee","tag-margate","tag-margi-doonham","tag-queen","tag-royal-collection","tag-tracey-emin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejackdaw.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}