The Cottage Toilette
| The Cottage Toilette | |
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| Artist | David Wilkie |
| Year | 1824 |
| Type | Oil on mahogany, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 30.1 cm × 38.4 cm (11.9 in × 15.1 in) |
| Location | Wallace Collection , London |
The Cottage Toilette is an 1824 genre painting by the British artist David Wilkie. [1] [2] It depicts a scene from the 1725 play The Gentle Shepherd by the Scottish writer Allan Ramsay.
The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1824 at Somerset House in London. [3] Today the work is in the Wallace Collection in Marylebone, having been acquired in 1853 by Marquess of Hertford. [4]
References
- ^ Wright, Gordon & Smith p.824
- ^ Ingamells p.193
- ^ Tromans p.11
- ^ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-cottage-toilet-209369
Bibliography
- Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection: British, German, Italian, Spanish. Wallace Collection, 1985.
- Tromans, Nicholas. David Wilkie: The People's Painter. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
- Wright, Christopher, Gordon, Catherine May & Smith, Mary Peskett. British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yale University Press, 2006.