Frederick Walker, 1840–1875, British, Strange Faces, 1862 to 1863
- Title:
- Strange Faces
- Date:
- 1862 to 1863
- Materials & Techniques:
- Gouache, watercolor, and gum arabic on slightly textured, cream wove paper with white ground
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 25 7/8 × 31 1/4 inches (65.7 × 79.4 cm), Frame: 36 x 43 x 2 1/4 inches (91.4 x 109.2 x 5.7 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1980.6
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bonnet | faces | genre subject | girl | paintings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:20118
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Walker’s first major watercolor, Strange Faces, captures the moment when a timid young girl, perhaps recently orphaned, is introduced to an elderly couple who may be her new guardians. The work was a private commission from George Dalziel, a member of the family of engravers for whom Walker had done illustrations. Given its ambitious size and elaboration typical of works for public exhibition, it is strange that it was never shown publicly during Walker’s lifetime. Scott Wilcox, Victorian Idyll, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, V 2811
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 31, no. 129, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Susan P. Casteras, The substance or the shadow : images of Victorian womanhood, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, p. 101, no. 102, fig. 4, N7630 C27 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 31, no. 129, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Scott Wilcox, Victorian Idyll, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, p. 7, V 2811 [ORBIS]
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