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Saying Grace - from a picture by A. Neuhuys...New British Institution...1876. Creator: Unknown.

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Saying Grace - from a picture by A. Neuhuys, in the exhibition of the New British Institution, 1876. Engraving of a painting. 'We have seldom seen a picture so truthful and touching in its homely pathos as this of a poor Dutch peasant interior, with its lowly occupants...We infer that this humble family circle consists of a grandmother and grandchildren only; perhaps the old dame is left bereaved of son or daughter with the offspring of the next generation to maintain unaided...how unfeignedly pious is the expression of that aged bowed head; and how sweetly reverential is the attitude of that simple, honest young girl! Not a whit less felicitous, appropriate, and true to nature is the contrast of the hungry little boy, too young yet to understand the import of "Saying Grace," whose fingers are already nibbling at the frugal fare contained in the dish, and whose face is beaming with pleasant anticipation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A81_092

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NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,1Mo (5,6Mo) / 42,0cm x 29,9cm / 4960 x 3532 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe food female women woman people male boy boys child children girl girls interior domestic hunger family home religious arts painting religion grace art meal tables British Netherlands Dutch color Christianity kitchen table prayer praying poor poverty hungry century gallery Britain inside household newspapers grandmother grandson press print furniture granddaughter grandchildren grandchild concept dining table dinner table exhibition B&W mealtime sentimental grateful gratitude old woman engraved engraving art gallery family life dining room table Colour 19th century elderly woman Saying grace Indoors black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century pious The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper Unknown art centre Low Countries 19th-century in prayer Albert Neuhuys Neuhuys Albert Neuhuijs Johan Albertus Johan Albertus Neuhuijs