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Print Collection

Watercolour Drawing
1802 (painted)
Artist/Maker

A three-quarter length drawing of a young woman dressed in the tight blue tail coat and soft, frilled white shirt which was the costume of a young boy in the early nineteenth century. Her hair is short and she carries a small whip, a top hat balanced on its tip, in her right hand. Her other hand is planted on her left hip.

The painting is entitled 'Mrs.Mills' as Little Pickle in The Spoiled Child. This play was a a farce in two acts and is known to have been performed at Drury Lane in 1790 and 1804, Covent Garden in 1820, Haymarket, Oct.4, 1826 and English Opera, Oct.3, 1926. The character Little Pickle, was a cheeky and troublesome schoolboy.


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Object type
TitlePrint Collection (named collection)
Materials and techniques
Brief description
Mrs. Mills as Little Pickle in The Spoiled Child, Watercolour Drawing by Samuel de Wilde, 1802
Physical description
A three-quarter length drawing of a young woman dressed in the tight blue tail coat and soft, frilled white shirt which was the costume of a young boy in the early nineteenth century. Her hair is short and she carries a small whip, a top hat balanced on its tip, in her right hand. Her other hand is planted on her left hip.
Dimensions
  • Height: 24.7cm
  • Width: 19.5cm
Subject depicted
Literary referenceThe Spoiled Child
Summary
A three-quarter length drawing of a young woman dressed in the tight blue tail coat and soft, frilled white shirt which was the costume of a young boy in the early nineteenth century. Her hair is short and she carries a small whip, a top hat balanced on its tip, in her right hand. Her other hand is planted on her left hip.

The painting is entitled 'Mrs.Mills' as Little Pickle in The Spoiled Child. This play was a a farce in two acts and is known to have been performed at Drury Lane in 1790 and 1804, Covent Garden in 1820, Haymarket, Oct.4, 1826 and English Opera, Oct.3, 1926. The character Little Pickle, was a cheeky and troublesome schoolboy.
Collection
Accession number
S.547-1983

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Record createdFebruary 11, 2010
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