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The Pool

Oil Painting
ca. 1850 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

An oil painting of a pond (possibly Blackheath pond) surrounded by trees and ringed with thick undergrowth. A boy stands on the bank with a fishing rod just left of centre.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleThe Pool (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Brief description
Oil Painting, 'The Pool', William Mulready RA, ca. 1850
Physical description
An oil painting of a pond (possibly Blackheath pond) surrounded by trees and ringed with thick undergrowth. A boy stands on the bank with a fishing rod just left of centre.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 50.4cm
  • Estimate width: 60.5cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend
Object history
Bqueathed by Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend, 1868
Bibliographic references
  • Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 211
  • Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain: Being an account of more than forty collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Mss, etc, London, 1857, p.178.
Collection
Accession number
1389-1869

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Record createdJuly 6, 2006
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