drawing
- Museum number
- 1885,0711.297
- Description
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An Irish Baptism; interior of a church, a priest standing by the curtains of a door instructing a group of two women kneeling, two other women with babies at left, an acolyte with flambeau stands behind. 1835
Black chalk and watercolour
- Production date
- 1835
- Dimensions
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Height: 169 millimetres
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Width: 253 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of several studies made in Ireland on the artist's only visit to that country, 1835.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1885
- Acquisition notes
- Thibaudeau acted as an agent for the British Museum at the Russell sale in December 1884, see 1885,0509.1574-1607. Some of the other drawings Thibaudeau purchased at the same sale were subsequently sold to the British Museum in 1885; see 1885,0509.33-51 and 1885,0711.271-303.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1885,0711.297
