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- Museum number
- Ii,15.6
- Title
- Object: The Age of Innocence
- Description
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Portrait of an unidentified young girl after Reynolds (Mannings 2008); whole-length sitting beneath a tree, her head in profile to right, hands together at her chest and her feet bare, wearing a white dress and a bow in her hair; landscape with castle beyond; proof before title and production detail. 1836
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1836
- Dimensions
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Height: 350 millimetres
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Width: 256 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The identity of the model is uncertain. David Mannings proposes that the painting was exhibited in 1785 as 'A Little Girl', at which time Theophilia Gwatkin would have been three. There are similarities with the facial features of Lady Anne Spencer, but the painting would date from the mid to late 1770s if she were the model. (See Mannings, no. 2008, p.507-8).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2013/14 Sep-Mar, Tate Britain, Age of Innocence
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Acquisition notes
- The gift from Jeremiah Harman is recorded in the 'Book of Donations 1823-1837' under 10 December 1836.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Ii,15.6
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 2006,U.258
