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Description: | The Victorians, famous for their sentimentality, favoured paintings of pretty girls and children at play. It is quite an unusual work as some of the children are positioned in adult-like poses, and our attention is drawn to the young couple sitting beneath the tree. Swings refer to playfulness and stir up memories of childhood. This work was produced before Frederick Goodall travelled to Egypt in 1858.
Oil painting showing a group of children in a green landscape gathered under a tree. A girl in a pink dress is sat on a swing. A boy is pushing her. |
License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ |
Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Subjects: | Love stories Boys Fine arts Childhood Trees Oil painting Open spaces Gardens Girls Childrens games Play Romance Landscape Oil Paintings Highlights Children Romances Victorian period People and roles Paintings Narrative painting Outdoor games Young people Dresses Games Love People Art collections Infants |
Temporal: | 1853
Victorian (1837-1901) |
Source: | Black Country History |
Creator: | GOODALL; Frederick (1822 - 1904) |
Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... |
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