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Waiting for an Answer

Oil Painting
1841 (painted)
Artist/Maker

Oil on panel depicting a couple waiting expectantly in the open door of a cottage. There is another woman visible through the window of the cottage, seated reading indoors


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleWaiting for an Answer (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Oil on panel
Brief description
Oil painting entitled 'Waiting for an Answer' by John Callcott Horsley. Great Britain, 1841.
Physical description
Oil on panel depicting a couple waiting expectantly in the open door of a cottage. There is another woman visible through the window of the cottage, seated reading indoors
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 41.9cm
  • Estimate width: 55.9cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Styles
Credit line
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Object history
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Bibliographic reference
Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 129
Collection
Accession number
FA.82[O]

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Record createdApril 24, 2007
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