print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1872,1012.2453
- Title
- Object: A Dream of the Future
- Description
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A woman leaning against a stile at right, a dog at left looking expectantly at the covered basket on her arm, a town in the distance at left with wagon approaching; after a painting by Creswick, Ansdell and Frith; illustration from 'The Art Journal', December 1865, opposite p.360. 1865
Engraving and engraving
- Production date
- 1865
- Dimensions
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Height: 325 millimetres
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Width: 243 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- This print is after a painting of 1856 by Ansdell (who painted the dog), Frith (woman) and Creswick (landscape) in Bolton Art Gallery; a version of the composition dated 1865 is in the Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate. See Mark Bills and Vivien Knight (eds), 'William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age (New Haven and London, 2006), p.151, where the Harrogate version of the work is reproduced as fig.141.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1872
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1872,1012.2453
