A Brilliant Idea
Drawing
1862 (made)
1862 (made)
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Oil on canvas over pencil drawing of a scene in a London street. In the foreground, a boy stands beside two girls sitting in a go-cart. In the background, a girl reaches for the door-knocker of a house with a To-Let sign. After a design for a wood-engraving of the same title in Punch's Almanac, 1855. Signed in ink by the artist and inscribed with the caption 'A Brilliant Idea - Matilda "Oh, look ye here Tommy! s'pose we play at your being the big footman, and me and Lizzerbuth'll be the fine ladies in the Carridge!'.
Object details
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| Title | A Brilliant Idea (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil over pencil on canvas |
| Brief description | Oil on canvas over pencil drawing of a scene in a London street depicting a boy and two girls in a go-cart in front of a house with a To-Let sign. After a design for a wood-engraving of the same title in Punch's Almanac, 1855. Great Britain, 1862. |
| Physical description | Oil on canvas over pencil drawing of a scene in a London street. In the foreground, a boy stands beside two girls sitting in a go-cart. In the background, a girl reaches for the door-knocker of a house with a To-Let sign. After a design for a wood-engraving of the same title in Punch's Almanac, 1855. Signed in ink by the artist and inscribed with the caption 'A Brilliant Idea - Matilda "Oh, look ye here Tommy! s'pose we play at your being the big footman, and me and Lizzerbuth'll be the fine ladies in the Carridge!'. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1946. London: Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, 1949. |
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| Accession number | E.1839-1946 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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