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Scene from Molière's 'Monsieur de Pourceaugnac'

Oil Painting
1870 (painted)
Artist/Maker

Oil painting, 'Scene from Molière's "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac"', William Maw Egley, 1870


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleScene from Molière's 'Monsieur de Pourceaugnac'
Materials and techniques
Oil on millboard
Brief description
Oil painting, 'Scene from Molière's "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac"', William Maw Egley, 1870
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 14.6cm
  • Estimate width: 20.3cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
'W Maw Egley. 1870.' (Signed and dated by the artist, lower left)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Henry Spencer Ashbee
Object history
Bequeathed by Henry Spencer Ashbee, 1900
Literary referenceMolière, <i>Monsieur de Pourceaugnac</i>
Bibliographic reference
Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 79
Collection
Accession number
1847-1900

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Record createdApril 11, 2007
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