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The Evening Star (Child's Head)

Oil Painting
1833 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Claxton, Marshall (painter (artist))
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Oil painting


Object details

Categories
Paintings
Children & Childhood
Object type
Oil painting
TitleThe Evening Star (Child's Head)
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Oil Paint
Canvas
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil painting, 'The Evening Star (Child's Head)', Marshall Claxton, 1833
Physical description
Oil painting
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 52.1cm
  • Approx. width: 41.9cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style
British School
Object history
Purchased, 1875
Subject depicted
Child
Bibliographic reference
Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 26-27
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
905-1875

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Record createdApril 17, 2007
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O133973/the-evening-star-childs-head-oil-painting-claxton-marshall/
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