- Title:
The Story of a Life
- Date:
- 1866
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 37 x 60 1/4 inches (94 x 153 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed, lower right: "wq orchardson"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1989.10
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1989.10FR
- Subject Terms:
- apron (main garment) | bed | candles | candlestick | cavern | dress | genre subject | gesture | girls | nun | poem | religious | ribbon | sash | teacher | teaching | woman
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1304
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Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
James Dafforne, British Artists, Their Style and Character , Art Journal, no. 104, August 1870, p. 234, Available online: British Periodicals database [ORBIS]
Lindsay. Errington, Master class, Robert Scott Lauder and his pupils , National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1983, p. 79, no. 70, fig. 70, NJ18 L3726 E77 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Exhibition of the Royal Academy, London Times, May 5, 1866, p.9, Avaialble on line : Times Digital Archive Also available on microfilm : Film AN T482 (SML) [ORBIS]
Fine Arts, Royal Academy , Athenaeum, no. 2011, May 12, 1866, p. 639, Available online: British Periodicals II Also available: .A88 At421 + (SML) [ORBIS]
Ayla Lepine, Fabric of devotion : William Quiller Orchardson's The story of a life and women religious in Victorian Britain, [ Electrronic Resource] , Center for the Study of Material & Visual Cultures of Religion, New Haven, Accessed January 14, 2016, pp. 1- 10, Available online http://mavcor.yale.edu/conversations/essays/fabric-devotion-william-quiller-orchardson-s-story-life-and-women-religious [Website]
James Stanley Little, The life and work of William Q. Orchardson, R.A., Art Journal office, London, 1897, p. 32, ND497.O7 [ORBIS]
Scottish Arts Council, Sir William Quiller Orchardson R.A., [ catalogue of] a Scottish Arts Council exhibition ] , Edinburgh, 1972, p. 41, no. 12, NJ18 Or35 S36 (YCBA) [YCBA]
The Royal Academy, Art Journal, v. 54, June 1866, p. 168, Available online Available online in British Periodicals II DB [ORBIS]