All texts copyright Richard Shillitoe
triton
c. 1971
Watercolour and pencil.
9 x 11¾in. (22.9 x 30.4cm.)
Titled verso and inscribed ‘A Telechine’.
Provenance
NT.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
In Greek mythology, Triton, a sea god, was the son of Poseidon. He is usually
portrayed as having the head and trunk of a man and, in place of legs, the tail of a fish. A telechine is
a sea spirit. In some legends the telechines made Poseidon’s trident.
The technique is stillomancy. The work is datable to ca. 1971 in common with other works of gods and
spirits using this technique.
