The Drunkard's Plight
Date1845
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions19 3/4 × 15 1/4 inches (50.17 × 38.74 cm)
Credit LineGift of Miss Sarah M. Sheridan
Object number44.277
ClassificationsPaintings
Curator NotesYoung woman and boy stare at an unkempt and raggedly dressed man. Behind them, in the middle ground, a woman and child look on from the doorway of a cottage. In the distant left foreground is a town on the shore of a lake.
On View
Not on viewLocations
- Storage - Long-term Demo Museum (Hanover Square), East Wing, American Art, Paintings 1
ProvenanceFormerly in the collections of:
Miss Ella Grace Roys
James A. Roys, her father, a bookseller who may have
acquired the painting from the artist.
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