print
- Museum number
- 1937,0803.2
- Title
- Object: The Coming of Age in Olden Times
- Description
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A crowded scene in a courtyard with figures in Tudor dress drinking and feasting, others watching as a young man descends the steps at right, a man at the foot reading from a scroll, a kneeling figure beside him bearing a helmet to present to the boy, whose parents watch proudly from the doorway above; after William Powell Frith. 1854
Engraving, etching and stipple on chine collé
- Production date
- 1854
- Dimensions
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Height: 746 millimetres
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Width: 1057 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy, London in 1849 (No.349) and is now (2006) in a private collection.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1937
- Acquisition notes
- Given by Surgeon Captain F H Holl, RN (presumably a descendant of Francis Holl)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1937,0803.2
