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94 Degrees in the Shade Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (painter)
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Title/s	94 Degrees in the Shade
Maker/s	Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (painter) [ULAN info: British artist, 1836-1912]
Category	painting
Name	painting
School/Style	British
Production Notes	The scene shows a cornfield at Godstone, Surrey, with the donor, at that date aged seventeen, lying in the foreground.
Technique Description	oil on canvas laid down on panel
Dimensions	height: 35.3 cm width: 21.6 cm
Date	1876
Provenance	given: Thompson, Sir (Henry Francis) Herbert, Bart 1920 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints) Sir Henry Thompson, Bart, father of the donor
Inscriptions/Marks	signature Position: lower right Method: Content: L Alma Tadema op CLXIV label Position: verso Method: printed label Content: Bermondsey Settlement Picture Exhibition, owner Sir H. Thomson, 9 Kensington Park Gdns., no. 1. label Position: verso Method: printed label Content: R.A. Winter Exhibition, 1913, same lender, title given as "94(degrees) in the Shade. Mahogany panel bevelled at back
Documentation	(2005) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum, London: Scala [page: 105] (1974) Landscapes from the Fitzwilliam, London? [comments: pl. 66] Goodison, J.W. (1977) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: 4] Swanson, Vern G. (1977) Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. The Painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient World, [page: 17, 34] [comments: fig. 9] Ash, Russell (1989) Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, [page: 4] [comments: pl. 6, reproduced inside back flap] (1992) British Landscape Paintings from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Tokyo [page: 120-121] [comments: cat. no. 52, reproduced (colour)]
Accession Number	1014 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints) (Reference Number: 723; Input Date: 1999-12-20 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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