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Augustus Egg's Triptych: A Narrative of Victorian Adultery
04/1983 | 961 | 125
Pages: 202+204-212
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Author:
Edelstein, T. J. (Edelstein, T. J.)
Subjects
artists:
Egg, Augustus Leopold
dates:
1850-1899
places:
England
sources:
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
subjects:
British painting
subjects:
Victorian / Social history / Middle Class
subjects:
Marriage
subjects:
Adultery / Divorce
Illustrations
Attributed works:
14, 15, 16. Past and Present, by Augustus Egg. Each 63.5 by 76.2 cm. (Tate Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
17. Building Houses with Cards, by Truchy after Gravelot and Hayman. 1743. Engraving, Plate Size 28.3 by 35.3 cm. (Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
Attributed works:
18. 'The Great Boon' by John Leech. Punch [1858].
Attributed works:
19. The Spoiled Child, Scene VI, by Louis Vaslet. Water-Colour over Pencil, 38.1 by 49.5 cm. (Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
Attributed works:
20. The Outcast, by Richard Redgrave. Signed and Dated, 1851. Panel, 78.7 by 104.2 cm. (Royal Academy)
Attributed works:
21. The Awakening Conscience, by William Holman Hunt. 1854. 75.6 by 54.9 cm. (Tate Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
22. The Modest Girl in Her Bedchamber, by Gaugain after James Northcote. 1796. Stipple Engraving, 46.4 by 52.8 cm. (Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).