Robert Braithwaite Martineau

Kit’s Writing Lesson

1852

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Not on display

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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- literature (not Shakespeare)(2,296)
- - Dickens, Charles ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’(1)
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- animals: birds(1,286)
- - bird - non-specific(466)
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- - thread(4)
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- - inkstand(18)
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- - cage(55)
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