Gainsborough's cough medicine
May 29 2014
Picture: Royal Academy
The latest Burlington Magazine has an article by Gainsborough scholar Hugh Belsey on some previously unpublished documents by the artist. The article isn't online (curses) but The Art Newspaper reports that one of them relates to Gainsborough's home-made cough medicine:
“Take two calves’ feet, two quarts of spring water, two ounces of sugar candy, one ounce of hart’s horn shavings, and one quart of milk; put them into an earthen pan, and send them to the oven to be baked after the bread is taken out, and to remain all night in the oven.”
Yummy. The recipe was spotted by Chris Fletcher in the British Library.
- Share This
- Filed Under:
- Research
- Discoveries
Categories
- Research
- Exhibitions
- Passion on Paper at Christ Church Picture Gallery
- From Paris to Provence: French Painting at the Barnes
- Upcoming: Dangerously Modern Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890–1940
- 'Definitive' Turner and Constable Exhibition at Tate in November 2025
- Masterpieces from Kenwood at Gainsborough's House
- More ...
- Auctions
- Discoveries
- Conservation
- Heroes of art history
- 15th Century & Earlier
- 16th Century
- Hans Baldung acquired by Alte Pinakothek
- Possible Habsburg Princess Acquired by Museum Hof van Busleyden
- The National Gallery acquires mysterious 16th-century altarpiece for £16.4m
- Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis visit Holbeins at Frick Collection
- National Trust conserve Upton House Tintoretto
- More ...
- 17th Century
- 18th Century
- Masterpieces from Kenwood at Gainsborough's House
- £20m+ Canaletto coming up at Christie's London
- Henry Singleton's 'The Surrender of the two sons of Tipu Sultan' coming up at Bonhams
- Free Lecture: Places of the Mind, Portraits of the Soul: Drawings by Jonathan Richardson and John Constable
- Wright of Derby Self Portrait coming up at Sloane Street Auctions
- More ...
- 19th Century
- 20th Century
- Upcoming: Dangerously Modern Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890–1940
- Er... what are those doing there? (ctd)
- New York Court tells Art Institute of Chicago to Surrender Schiele
- Dutch Town Hall Bins Warhol Print
- Bührle Foundation reaches confidential settlement with heirs of Jewish Collector over Manet
- More ...
- 21st Century