A Summer's Afternoon
Oil Painting
1844 (painted)
1844 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Oil on canvas depicting a large body of water surrounded by green trees and rocks. There is a woman with a child seated on the rocks at the left hand side, and a herd of cows drinking in the shallow water.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | A Summer's Afternoon (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on canvas |
| Brief description | Oil painting entitled 'A Summer's Afternoon' by Thomas Creswick. Great Britain, 1844. |
| Physical description | Oil on canvas depicting a large body of water surrounded by green trees and rocks. There is a woman with a child seated on the rocks at the left hand side, and a herd of cows drinking in the shallow water. |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'THO CRESWICK 1844' (Signed and dated by the artist) |
| Credit line | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Object history | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 53 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FA.62[O] |
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| Record created | February 13, 2007 |
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