print
- Museum number
- 1927,1126.1.12.11
- Title
- Object: The Village Politicians
- Description
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Simple interior, with several men sitting around a wooden table, one on the right with a paper on his knee, another opposite him vigorously making a point, others standing around a fire in the right background, also talking eagerly, while a child next to them holds her bread and butter out of the reach of an inquisitive dog; after Wilkie.
Steel engraving
- Production date
- 1850-1880 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 220 millimetres
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Width: 233 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The painting, exhibited at the Royal Academy, London in 1806, is at Scone Palace, Perthshire.
For the entry for the twelfth volume in the Potter Collection, see 1927,1126.1.12
This print can be found on page 34 of the volume.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1927
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1927,1126.1.12.11