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Description: | A young girl helps her Grandmother across the snowy path on their return from Mass. They wear plain, simple clothing and display their devotion to God by attending Church through the coldest of winter, and continuing their worship right through old age.
Oil painting of two women, one young, one old, walking out from a churchyard in the snow. The young woman, wears a white bonnet and holds a book close to her chest. The older woman, dressed in darker clothes with a red head scarf, holds onto the young woman's arms, steadying herself with a walking stick. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Worship Fine arts Churches Oil painting Women Churchyards Old age Old people Religious life Winter Young women Religious faith Catholics Religious buildings Snow Religion Grandmothers Oil Paintings Victorian period Elderly people Paintings Narrative painting Dresses Church People Art collections | Temporal: | 1850 - 1887
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | BOUGHTON; George Henry (1833 - 1905) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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