The Tenant's Reply
Artist
Erskine Nicol
(Leith, Scotland, 1825 - 1904)
Date1869
Mediumwatercolour on paper attached to canvas
ClassificationsPaintings And Drawings
DimensionsOverall: Height: 43.1 cm, Width: 33.7 cm
Frame: Height: 68 cm, Width: 58.2 cm
Frame: Height: 68 cm, Width: 58.2 cm
AcquisitionBequeathed in 1893 by Francis Edmond.
CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG002907
Keywords
- The Factor
Here, Nicol makes an amusing spectacle of the pursed-lipped bourgeois landlord - one can only imagine what he is reading in the letter! This use of facial expression had been popularised in British art by Sir David Wilkie's earlier genre pictures and continued well into the 19th century.
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What might the tenant have written to his landlord to produce such raised eyebrows and pursed lips?
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