A girl is held by her mother as another woman pierces her ear for an earring. Engraving after D. Wilkie, 1835.
- Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.
- Date:
- 1830-1839
- Reference:
- 35565i
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1830-1839
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1 print : engraving ; image 37.8 x 29.9 cm
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Painted by Sir David Wilkie R.A.
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Wellcome Collection 35565i
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After a painting exhibited in 1835 as "The first ear-ring":"The first earring (exh. RA, 1835; Tate collection), painted for John, sixth duke of Bedford, was the first of five pictures [by Wilkie] treating upper-class female domestic life." (Oxford dictionary of national biography
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