Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper

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V&A South Kensington
Paintings, Room 82, The Edwin and Susan Davies Galleries

Artist/Maker	Redgrave, Richard (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (painted)

Redgrave exhibited this painting with a quotation from Cinderella: 'That minx, said the step-sister, to think of trying on the slipper'. The painting shows costume and furnishings in a mix of styles: the tunics and pointed-toe shoes are medieval in flavour; the women’s clothing is 18th century in style; and the chair in the foreground is Victorian.

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Category	Paintings
Object type	Oil painting
Title	Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper (popular title)
Materials and techniques	oil on canvas Oil Paint Canvas Oil Painting
Brief description	Oil painting, 'Cinderella About to Try on the Glass Slipper', Richard Redgrave, ca. 1842
Physical description	Oil painting
Dimensions	Estimate height: 106.7cm Estimate width: 142.2cm With frame weight: 60kg Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style	British School
Credit line	Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Object history	Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Subjects depicted	Shoe Prince Cinderella
Literary references	Cinderella fairytales
Summary	Redgrave exhibited this painting with a quotation from Cinderella: 'That minx, said the step-sister, to think of trying on the slipper'. The painting shows costume and furnishings in a mix of styles: the tunics and pointed-toe shoes are medieval in flavour; the women’s clothing is 18th century in style; and the chair in the foreground is Victorian.
Bibliographic references	Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 236-37 Evans, Mark et al. Vikutoria & Arubāto Bijutsukan-zō : eikoku romanshugi kaigaten = The Romantic tradition in British painting, 1800-1950 : masterpieces from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Japan : Brain Trust, 2002
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	FA.167[O]

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Record created	May 12, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80644/cinderella-about-to-try-on-oil-painting-redgrave-richard/

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