The Industrial Arts in Time of Peace

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Artist/Maker	Pickersgill, Frederick Richard (painter (artist))
Place of origin	Britain (painted)

Oil painting. Lunette showing a medieval scene filled with people engaged with various arts. In the centre of the image, standing atop stairs is a woman in a full length gold and white gown and a man in red.

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Categories	Paintings History of the V&A
Object type	Oil painting
Title	The Industrial Arts in Time of Peace (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Oil on canvas Oil Paint Canvas Oil Painting
Brief description	Oil painting, 'The Industrial Arts in Time of Peace', Frederick Richard Pickersgill, 1871-1872
Physical description	Oil painting. Lunette showing a medieval scene filled with people engaged with various arts. In the centre of the image, standing atop stairs is a woman in a full length gold and white gown and a man in red.
Dimensions	Approx. height: 108.3cm Approx. width: 244.2cm Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Styles	British School Victorian
Object history	Commissioned for the decoration of the South Kensington Museum, 1871
Bibliographic reference	Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 228-29
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	127-1885

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Record created	May 9, 2007
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O134556/the-industrial-arts-in-time-oil-painting-pickersgill-frederick-richard/

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