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Description: | Wolverhampton born artist Edward Bird was very interested in the theatre. This small painting shows a scene from the play The Way to Get Married by Thomas Morton (1764-1838). The heroine Julia is in the arms of her suitor Tangent. He has rescued her from a villain and is taking her back to her father. The whole scene takes place in a prison where a father has been wrongly jailed. Adventures of young lovers, mistaken identities, sudden recognitions, and happy endings were all features of plays in Georgian times. They were popular then and are still favoured today. Given by Friends of the Art Gallery
Oil painting showing a bride in a white dress being held up by the groom, who is wearing black. A man in military costume looks on with his hands clasped. |
License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ |
Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service |
Subjects: | Weddings Love and Marriage Fine arts Oil painting Oil Paintings Marriage Georgian period Theatre |
Temporal: | 1796 - 1819
Georgian (1714-1837) |
Source: | Black Country History |
Creator: | BIRD; Edward (1772 - 1819) |
Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... |
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