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Collection Item: Refreshing the Weary
Basic info
- Collection
- Fine Art
- Title
- Refreshing the Weary
- The Thirsty Customer
- Object name
- Painting
- Object category
- Painting
- Creators
- Hannah, Robert (Artist)
- Faed, John (Artist)
- ()
- Description
- The scene is set in a fashionable part of London early in the morning. In the background is a busy crowd of delivery boys and servants. In the foreground is a country family who have come to London to join relatives or find work. Tired and thirsty, they have rested beside the pump on the left, only to find they cannot use it as it is padlocked. However the water seller on the right, a retired soldier who makes a frugal living from his humble trade, takes pity on the little boy and quenches his thirst.
- Production date start
- 1846
- Production date end
- 1847
- Period
- Victorian
Identification
- Object number
- YORAG : 1190
- Alternative number
- YAG 3359
- Number of objects
- 1
- ID
- 20000031
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Oil on canvas (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Canvas height 134.5 cm
- Canvas width 113.0 cm
- Frame height 152.0 cm
- Frame width 129.5 cm
- Frame depth 10.0 cm
Production
- Creators
- Hannah, Robert (Artist)
- Faed, John (Artist)
- ()
- Technique
- Painted
- School/style
- British
