FDA-D.216-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.216-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
A Family before a Croft in Connemara, Galway
Figures Outside a Croft in Connemara, Galway
Figures Outside a Croft in Connemara, Galway
Title Type
Common name
Previous title
Previous title
Comments
The poverty of the life of peasants in Ireland struck all visitors. Here the curious cage on the thatch keeps in the chickens - Hall noted a barefooted child walking with an egg in each hand for five miles to market.
Other number
CL 566
Description
Content (place)
Ireland
Dimensions
height (actual size): 360mm
width (actual size): 490mm
width (actual size): 490mm
Dimension note
14 7/8in. x 20 1/8in.
Inscription
Signed, inscribed and dated lower left 'Connemara Galway,/W. Evans/1836'
Materials & techniques note
Pencil and watercolour heightened with white
Production
Person
Evans, William, 1798 - 1877 (Artist)
Date
1836
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: With Fry Gallery, London, 1997
Exhibited: Eton, Brewhouse Gallery, William Evans of Eton, 1998, no.39
Exhibited: Eton, Brewhouse Gallery, William Evans of Eton, 1998, no.39
References
• Connor, L.M., William Evans of Eton 1798-1877, exhibition catalogue, Brewhouse, Eton 1998 (p.53, no.39)
