William Drury-Lowe

British, 1802 - 1877

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This shield-shaped painting shows a young man with pale, peachy skin and curling brown hair standing astride the severed head of a man with dark hair and tanned skin. The painting is wider at the top and tapers like a pint glass to a narrower base. The young man, David, holds the end of long red slingshot with his right hand. The slingshot is weighted by a rock and swings behind his body. His sleeveless rust-red garment is cinched at his waist over a long white shirt. Both garments skim David’s thighs and his legs and feet are bare. Long, curling brown hair frames the ashen and bloodied upturned face of the head at David’s feet. A palm-sized stone is embedded in that forehead. The landscape background is made up of gray boulders, a meandering river, and low palm-like trees. Frothy white clouds sweep across an azure-blue sky.
Andrea del Castagno, David with the Head of Goliath, c. 1450/1455, tempera on leather on wood, Widener Collection, 1942.9.8

David with the Head of Goliath

Andrea del Castagno · c. 1450/1455 · tempera on leather on wood ·  Accession ID  1942.9.8

Bibliography

1901

  • Richter, Jean Paul. Catalogue of Pictures at Locko Park. London, 1901.

1968

  • Hughes-Hartman, George. Pictures from Locko Park, Derbyshire. Exh. cat. Nottingham University Art Gallery, 1968

1976

  • Calvocoressi, Richard. "Locko Park. An Important Family Collection." The Connoisseur 192 (June 1976): 141-145.