Waiting for an Answer
Oil Painting
1841 (painted)
1841 (painted)
| Artist/Maker |
Oil on panel depicting a couple waiting expectantly in the open door of a cottage. There is another woman visible through the window of the cottage, seated reading indoors
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Waiting for an Answer (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on panel |
| Brief description | Oil painting entitled 'Waiting for an Answer' by John Callcott Horsley. Great Britain, 1841. |
| Physical description | Oil on panel depicting a couple waiting expectantly in the open door of a cottage. There is another woman visible through the window of the cottage, seated reading indoors |
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| Credit line | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Object history | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Bibliographic reference | Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 129 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FA.82[O] |
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| Record created | April 24, 2007 |
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