Study of a Young Girl Seated
Frederic James Shields 1833 - 1911
Summary
Study drawing of a girl seated on a wooden chair, facing to the left. The subject's head is turned slightly to her left. Her hands are held together in her lap. She is wearing a green dress under a white pinafore. She has long, straight hair with a parting in the centre. There are flowers to the left. The model looks very like Matilda Booth, 'Cissy', Shields' wife, whom he married in 1874 when he was forty, and she was sixteen years old (see watercolour 'The Artist's Wife', 1874, in the collection of the William Morris Gallery, London), although this identification has not been substantiated.
Object Name
Study of a Young Girl Seated
Creators Name
Date Created
1870 (circa)
Dimensions
support (sight): 18.8cm x 12.5cm
accession number
1917.307
Collection Group
Place of creation
Europe
Support
paper
Medium
watercolour
gouache
gum arabic
Credit
Leicester Collier Bequest
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