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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
British Galleries, Room 122

Almsgiving

Oil Painting
1839 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oil painting


Object details

Category
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Oil Painting
  • Frames
TitleAlmsgiving (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Oil on panel The painting was glazed with LRG 05/08/2022 (backfill Constable Touring Loan)
Brief description
Oil painting entitled 'Almsgiving' by Charles West Cope. Great Britain, 1839.
Physical description
Oil painting
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 69.9cm (Note: Glass 499mm X734mm X2mm LRG)
  • Estimate width: 45.7cm
  • Frame dimensions height: 92cm
  • Frame dimensions width: 69cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
'C W Cope/1839' (Signed and dated by the artist on bottom step, lower right)
Credit line
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Object history
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 48
Collection
Accession number
FA.57[O]

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Record createdApril 18, 2007
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