Maiden Meditation
Oil Painting
1847 (painted)
1847 (painted)
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| Place of origin |
The subject comes from the Book of Isaiah in the Old Testament: ‘I will greatly rejoice in the Lord…; for he hath clothed me with a robe of righteousness’. In 1847 a critic found the painting ‘beautiful and impressive in its touching simplicity’, but ‘extremely stiff and formal’.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Maiden Meditation (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | oil on a gesso ground on canvas |
| Brief description | Oil painting entitled 'Maiden Meditation' by Charles West Cope. Great Britain, 1847. |
| Physical description | Oil on a gesso, ground on canvas, depicting a half-length portrait of a woman reading |
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| Credit line | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Object history | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | The subject comes from the Book of Isaiah in the Old Testament: ‘I will greatly rejoice in the Lord…; for he hath clothed me with a robe of righteousness’. In 1847 a critic found the painting ‘beautiful and impressive in its touching simplicity’, but ‘extremely stiff and formal’. |
| Bibliographic reference | Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 47 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FA.55[O] |
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| Record created | June 19, 2003 |
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