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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D5459/1/83 |
| Former Reference | D5459/1/12 |
| Title | [Young family sitting down] |
| Date | [1780-1799] |
| Description | A domestic scene of a young family with pets. The husband, wearing breeches, and red and white striped waistcoat blue coat and bag-wig is seated in a chair. In his right hand he is holding a book, which he is reading, and he holds his wife's hand in his left. She is also seated, and wears a pale pink dress and a mobcap with a blue ribbon. She is looking at her husband, and on her lap is seated a small child in a white dress and red shoes. On the floor to the left of the man a tabby cat appears to be grooming a dog.
The scene takes place in a pleasant room. Light shines in through a window on the right of the picture, the walls are painted blue beneath the dado and white above it and the floor is covered in a carpet of what seems to be a Union Jack design. On the wall behind the couple is an oval mirror, on either side of which are allegorical paintings. To the left of the mirror is a picture of Time, standing in a landscape in front of a church. He is crowning two hearts joined by an arrow with a wreath. Below the picture the caption reads: 'Time strengthens our Love'. To the right of the mirror is a picture of a couple seated beneath a tree. The caption reads: 'How sweet the love that meets return'. |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Artist | Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809) |
| Archive Creator | George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer |
| Further Information | Taken as a whole, the picture appears to be an idealisation of family love. |
| Physical Description | Coloured drawing. Size 290 x 250 mm. |
| Copies | A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
| Image | ![[Young family sitting down]](GetImage.ashx?db=Catalog&fname=D5459-1-83.jpg&type=RecordThumbnail)
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