- Title:
Hope
- Date:
- 1891
- Medium:
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions:
- 26 × 19 inches (66 × 48.3 cm), Frame: 39 1/8 × 31 × 3 inches (99.4 × 78.7 × 7.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Claire and Albert J. Zuckerman, Yale School of Drama MFA 1961, DFA 1962
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2011.32
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Subject Terms:
- allegory | globes (cartographic spheres) | hope | lyres | religious and mythological subject | 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:64029
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Brian Aldis, Watts Matter, Brian Aldis on the Morality and Art of G. F. Watts, now on show at Whitechapel , Guardian (Manchester, England), Manchester, 30 January 1974, p. 10, Available online: Proquest, The Guardian and The Observer [ORBIS]
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