Children sit round a table reading a newspaper while another child tries to prevent a woman from entering the room. Process print after Alexander H. Burr.
- Burr, Alexander Hohenlohe, 1835-1899.
- Date:
- 4 April 1891
- Reference:
- 29212i
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A chair and a basket of vegetables have been overturned; schoolbooks lie on the floor. A clock on the back wall gives the time as 12.28.
Publication/Creation
[Glasgow] : Glasgow weekly herald, 4 April 1891 (Glasgow : MacLure, MacDonald & Co. Litho)
Physical description
1 print : process print ; image 30.4 x 37.5 cm
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Politicians - children's subject. From a painting by Alexander H. Burr
Reference
Wellcome Collection 29212i
Reproduction note
After a painting by Burr that was sold at Bonham's auction 'Scottish art', Edinburgh, 17 April 2013, lot 7 (oil on wood 63 x 76.5 cm, signed and dated 'AH Burr / 1856', and inscribed on the verso '"Politicians" / Alex.r H Burr / 52 Pleasence Edin.r')
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