The Lesson
Oil Painting
1831 (painted)
1831 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
An oil painting depicting a small child in a cottage interior, reading to an older woman while a more formally dressed man looks on.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | The Lesson (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on panel |
| Brief description | Oil Painting, 'The Lesson', Thomas Webster, 1831 |
| Physical description | An oil painting depicting a small child in a cottage interior, reading to an older woman while a more formally dressed man looks on. |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'T Webster/1831' (Signed and dated by the artist, diagonally, lower left) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by John Jones |
| Object history | Bequeathed by John Jones, 1882 |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 301 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 509-1882 |
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| Record created | August 3, 2006 |
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