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Pamela and Mr B. in the summer house

Highmore, Joseph (painter)

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Title/s

Pamela and Mr B. in the summer house

Maker/s

Highmore, Joseph (painter) [ULAN info: British artist, 1692-1780]

Category

painting

Name

painting

School/Style

British

Technique Description

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 62.9 cm
width: 75.6 cm

Date

circa 1744

Inscriptions/Marks


  1. Position: verso, stretcher
    Method:
    Content: No 2

  2. Position: verso, stretcher
    Method: chalk
    Content: Nov 26-20

  3. Position: verso, frame
    Method:
    Content: No 2
  4. label
    Position: verso, frame
    Method: MS
    Content: No 4

Documentation

  1. (2005) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum, London: Scala [page: 76]
  2. Constable, William George (1927) Catalogue of Pictures in the Marlay Bequest, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press
    [comments: pl. XXVIII]
  3. MacCauley, Rose (1942) Life Among the English, [page: 9]
    [comments: reproduced opp.]
  4. (1963) Paintings by Joseph Highmore, Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood
    [comments: reproduced pl. IVA, exhibition catalogue]
  5. Goodison, J.W. (1967) [Unknown; Illustrated London News; 1960], London [page: 316]
    Source title: Illustrated London News (1960)
  6. Goodison, J.W. (1977) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: 102-105]
    [comments: pl. 7]

Accession Number

M.Add.6 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 3341; Input Date: 2000-03-27 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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