Sujet

The Power Of Justice, c1788. Creator: George Morland.

Légende

The Power Of Justice, c1788. Shows a poor weaver being taken to debtor’s prison by an officer of the law. The weaver is leaving behind his distressed wife and two children, one of whom buries her face in her mother’s skirts.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A23_279

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

193,9Mo (8,4Mo) / 60,6cm x 80,2cm / 7156 x 9470 (300dpi)

Mots clés

England female women woman people male child children looking job man men historical family arts painting country marriage figure figures law art guy crime occupation British museum English color weaver rustic poor poverty prison location century gallery justice Britain holding hands profession debt officer concept exhibition exhibit wives wife husband posture art museum art gallery penitentiary oil Painting debtor Colour Museum of Art rococo Looking At Each Other 18th century Eighteenth Century rural culture history historic Oil on canvas rural life George Morland Rococo era Morland George Oil on canvas Regionalism art centre Clark Art Institute Heritage Art debtors' prison