File:William Powell Frith - An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago.jpg
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William Powell Frith: An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago
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An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||
| Description |
"When the merry bells ring round, And jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the checquered shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday" - Milton's L'Allegro |
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| Date | 1847 | |||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 113 cm (44.4 in); width: 185.5 cm (73 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
Sold by Frith to a picture-dealer John Graham, Skelmorlie Castle, Ayrshire, by 1862. H.W.F. Bolckow by 1887 (+); Christie's, London, 18 June 1892, lot 159, 430 gns to William Proby, 5th Earl of Carysfort, and thence by descent. |
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Signature and date bottom left: W.P. Frith. 1847
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| Source/Photographer | Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5275395 (sale 7788, lot 34, London, 16 December 2009) | |||||||||||||||||
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