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Description: | The costume of the old lady gives this picture a very strong Dutch feel. It is a sketch for a larger painting, Reading the Scriptures, painted around 1835 and now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Oil painting showing a simple interior in which there is an elderly lady sat in a large carved wooden chair. By her side is a young girl sat on a low wooden stool. She is reading a book. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Chairs Grandparents Houses Fine arts Childhood Grandmothers Oil painting Women Oil Paintings Old age Children Homes Victorian period Interiors Elderly people People and roles Nannies Leisure Girls Paintings Cranbrook Colony of Artists People Art collections | Temporal: | 1815 - 1886
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | WEBSTER; Thomas George (1800 - 1886) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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