Gentle Critics (The Portfolio)

1872

Emily Farmer

Artist, British, 1826 - 1905

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over traces of graphite with gum arabic and white gouache on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 50.8 × 36.83 cm (20 × 14 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2020.123.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection, England; (sale, Tennant's, Leyburn, 21 March 2020, no. 89); (Karen Taylor, London); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

-1

  • Institute of Painters in Water-colours' Winter Exhibition of Sketches and Studies, The Gallery, Pall Mall, London, December 1872, no. 50 (as "The Portfolio")

2023

  • Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Inscriptions

lower right in watercolor: Emily Farmer 1872


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