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Perfect Content (A Man Smoking)

Oil Painting
1856 (painted)
Artist/Maker

Oil painting, 'Perfect Content (A Man Smoking)', Erskine Nicol, 1856


Object details

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Object type
TitlePerfect Content (A Man Smoking)
Materials and techniques
Oil on millboard
Brief description
Oil painting, 'Perfect Content (A Man Smoking)', Erskine Nicol, 1856
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 20.9cm
  • Estimate width: 18.5cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style
Credit line
Bequeathed by Joshua Dixon
Object history
Bequeathed by Joshua Dixon, 1886
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 219
Collection
Accession number
1039-1886

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Record createdFebruary 6, 2007
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