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- Title:
The Benevolent Heir or the Tenant Restored to his Family
- Former Title(s):
The benevolent heir restoring an old cottager confined to debt, to his family [1797, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1797
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 40 1/4 x 50 1/4 inches (102.2 x 127.6 cm), Frame: 49 × 59 × 3 1/2 inches (124.5 × 149.9 × 8.9 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.43
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.43FR
- Subject Terms:
- agricultural equipment | boys | brothers | children | costume | cottage | daughters | dog (animal) | family | farmer | father | genre subject | girls | heir | house | husband | joy | men | mother | peasants | rakes | sisters | sons | tenant | tools | trees | wife | women
- 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:556
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