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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Description

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

Lettering

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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