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Beating for recruits

Oil Painting
1830-1850 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oil on panel;Three boys peer around a cottage door at another boy seated and rocking a cradle from which a baby is falling


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleBeating for recruits (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on mahogany panel
Brief description
Oil on panel, 'Beating for Recruits', Thomas Webster, 1830-1850
Physical description
Oil on panel;Three boys peer around a cottage door at another boy seated and rocking a cradle from which a baby is falling
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 44.5cm
  • Estimate width: 39.4cm
  • Frame height: 70cm
  • Frame width: 60cm
  • Frame depth: 7cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style
Marks and inscriptions
T Webster (signed bottom right)
Credit line
Bequeathed by John Jones
Object history
Bequeathed by John Jones, 1882
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 302
Collection
Accession number
536-1882

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Record createdJune 13, 2006
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