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A Cottage Exterior: A Seated Labourer Filling His Pipe

Oil Painting
1793 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This painting is the pair of An Old Woman Preparing Tea which is also in the V&A (Museum no.199-1885). Both paintings were shown at the Royal Academy, London, in 1794, with the titles The Husbandman's Enjoyment and Poor Old Woman's Comfort, respectively.

The artist, William Redmore Bigg (1755-1828), painted portaits of the gentry. He also painted ‘genre’ scenes such as these, featuring sentimental images of rustic life and especially cottage interiors and exteriors peopled by a virtuous and hard-working peasantry. The public could enjoy such images for their tasteful, if idealised, representation of tranquillity and contentment.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleA Cottage Exterior: A Seated Labourer Filling His Pipe (generic title)
Materials and techniques
oil on canvas
Brief description
Oil painting, 'A Cottage Exterior: a Seated Labourer Filling his Pipe', William Redmore Bigg, 1793
Physical description
Oil painting
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 25.5in
  • Estimate width: 21.25in
Dimensions taken from Summary Catalogue of British Paintings, Victoria and Albert Museum (London:1973)
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'W R Bigg 1793' (Signed and dated by the artist)
Object history
Probably exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1794 [25] as `The husbandman's enjoyment.'
Subjects depicted
Summary
This painting is the pair of An Old Woman Preparing Tea which is also in the V&A (Museum no.199-1885). Both paintings were shown at the Royal Academy, London, in 1794, with the titles The Husbandman's Enjoyment and Poor Old Woman's Comfort, respectively.

The artist, William Redmore Bigg (1755-1828), painted portaits of the gentry. He also painted ‘genre’ scenes such as these, featuring sentimental images of rustic life and especially cottage interiors and exteriors peopled by a virtuous and hard-working peasantry. The public could enjoy such images for their tasteful, if idealised, representation of tranquillity and contentment.
Associated object
Collection
Accession number
198-1885

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Record createdDecember 15, 1999
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