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Creator:
William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828
Title:

The Severe Steward, or Unfortunate Tenant

Former Title(s):

The Rapacious Steward or the Unfortunate Tenant

The Rapacious Steward

Date:
between 1800 and 1801
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 1/4 x 50 1/8 inches (102.2 x 127.3 cm), Frame: 48 x 58 x 3 inches (121.9 x 147.3 x 7.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.42
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
boys | brothers | children | churn | costume | cottage | cows | daughters | family | farmer | father | genre subject | gesture | girls | horse (animal) | house | husband | imprisonment | landlord | men | mother | peasants | rent | sadness | shovel | sisters | son | steward | tenant | wife | women
Access:
Not on view
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:555
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Art on the line : the Royal Academy exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780-1836 : [catalogue of works], , The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2001, no. 18, V 0909 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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David H. Solkin, Art on the Line : the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2001, Foldout no. 36, N5054 A78 2001B (YCBA) [YCBA]


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