Not on display
- Artist
- Charles William Wyllie 1853–1923
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 660 x 1270 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1877
- Reference
- N01594
Catalogue entry
N01594 DIGGING FOR BAIT 1877
Inscr. ‘C. W. Wyllie 1877’ b.l.
Canvas, 26 1/4×50 (66·5×127).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1877.
Exh:
R.A., 1877 (577).
Repr: Sir Edward J. Poynter, The National Gallery, III, 1900, p.397.
Painted at Ambleteuse, near Boulogne.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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