Robert Braithwaite Martineau

Kit’s Writing Lesson

1852

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Artist: Robert Braithwaite Martineau 1826–1869
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 521 × 705 mm
frame: 736 × 910 × 88 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by Mrs Phyllis Tillyard 1955
Reference: T00011

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interiors(4,628)
- public and municipal(961)
- - shop(72)
leisure and pastimes(7,770)
- recreational activities(2,849)
- - writing(255)
literature and fiction(3,162)
- literature (not Shakespeare)(2,296)
- - Dickens, Charles ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’(1)
nature(45,222)
- animals: birds(1,283)
- - bird - non-specific(466)
objects(23,359)
- clothing and personal items(5,877)
- - armour(106)
- domestic(416)
- - thread(4)
- furnishings(3,079)
- - ornament(35)
- reading, writing, printed matter(5,153)
- - inkstand(18)
- vessels and containers(2,152)
- - cage(55)
  - vase(277)
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- actions: postures and motions(9,094)
- - sitting(3,321)
  - standing(3,131)
- children(3,393)
- - boy(1,157)
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