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Collection Item: A Scene from 'The Careless Husband'
A Scene from 'The Careless Husband'
Basic info
- Collection
- Fine Art
- Title
- A Scene from 'The Careless Husband'
- Object name
- Painting
- Object category
- Painting
- Creators
- Mercier, Philippe (Artist)
- Description
- Sir Charles Easy (left), in a red jacket and breeches, sleeps wigless in a chair while from behind his wife, with gentle reprobation, places a steinkirk on his head; to the left Mrs Edging, his mistress and his wife's maid, in a yellow dress, sleeps in another chair; the subject is taken from Colley Cibber's The Careless Husband, Act 5, scene 3.
- Production date start
- 1738
Identification
- Object number
- YORAG : 1179
- Number of objects
- 1
- ID
- 20000177
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Oil on canvas (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Canvas height 100.3 cm
- Canvas width 124.5 cm
- Frame height 122.9 cm
- Frame width 148.0 cm
- Frame depth 8.0 cm
Production
- Creators
- Mercier, Philippe (Artist)
- Technique
- Painted
- School/style
- German
