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William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828, British, Christening of the Heir, ca. 1799

Creator:: William Redmore Bigg, 1755–1828
Title:: Christening of the Heir
Date:: ca. 1799
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1981.25.45
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:: B1981.25.45FR
Subject Terms:: blessing | book | bowl | carpet | ceremony | chairs | children | christening | conversation piece | costume | curtains | family | father | genre subject | girls | heir | husband | infant | interior | joy | men | mother | priest | religious and mythological subject | sisters | stool | table | wife | windows | women
Access:: Not on view
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Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:558
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Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 22-23, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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