William Etty

The Dangerous Playmate

exhibited 1833

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Artist
William Etty 1787–1849
Medium
Oil paint on mahogany
Dimensions
Support: 267 x 279 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
Reference
N00360

Not on display

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William Hilton the Younger, ‘Cupid and Nymph’ exhibited 1828
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William Etty, ‘Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed’ exhibited 1830
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William Etty, ‘Study of a Peacock for ‘The Judgement of Paris’’ ?c.1826
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N04384
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William Etty The Saviour or the Disciple

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William Etty, ‘The Magdalen’ ?exhibited 1842
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William Etty, ‘The Coral Finder: Venus and her Youthful Satellites, replica’ c.1820–48
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N06354
William Etty, ‘Musidora: The Bather ‘At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed’, replica’ ?exhibited 1846
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William Etty, ‘Miss Mary Arabella Jay’ exhibited 1819
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