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The Lesson

Oil Painting
1831 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

An oil painting depicting a small child in a cottage interior, reading to an older woman while a more formally dressed man looks on.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleThe Lesson (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on panel
Brief description
Oil Painting, 'The Lesson', Thomas Webster, 1831
Physical description
An oil painting depicting a small child in a cottage interior, reading to an older woman while a more formally dressed man looks on.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 38.1cm
  • Estimate width: 58.3cm
  • Frame height: 60cm
  • Frame width: 79cm
  • Frame depth: 5.5cm
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/1831' (Signed and dated by the artist, diagonally, lower left)
Credit line
Bequeathed by John Jones
Object history
Bequeathed by John Jones, 1882
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 301
Collection
Accession number
509-1882

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Record createdAugust 3, 2006
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