Oil paint on mahogany
Tate Collection
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Robert Vernon
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Pride Village
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
book - non-specific
comforting
compassion
despair
diseases and conditions
domestic
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
holding hands
illness
interiors
Irving, Washington, ‘The Pride of the Village’
leisure and pastimes
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
living room
love
man, old
objects
people
reading
reading, writing, printed matter
recreational activities
sadness
sitting
spinning wheel
tools and machinery
woman
woman, old
<p>When this picture was first exhibited at the Royal Academy it was accompanied by a quotation from Washington Irving's short story 'The Pride of the Village', which was written in 1819: 'A tear trembles in her soft blue eyes. Was she thinking of her faithless lover? Or were her thoughts wandering to that distant churchyard into whose bosom she might soon be gathered?.'Irving's story told of an only daughter who was 'the pride of the village'. One year she was the May Queen and caught the attention of a young army officer. When his love proved to be false, the girl pined away in her parents' cottage.</p><p><em>Gallery label, March 1993</em></p>
painting oil paint mahogany
4 December 2010 – 26 February 2011
2011-02-26
4 December 2010 – 26 February 2011
2011-02-26
2010-12-04
Wolverhampton Art Gallery (Wolverhampton, UK)
http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk
2010-12-04
Cranbrook Colony: Fresh Perspectives
Loan-out
The Pride of the Village
support: 762 × 622 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999978" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Robert Vernon</a> 1847
<p>When this picture was first exhibited at the Royal Academy it was accompanied by a quotation from Washington Irving's short story 'The Pride of the Village', which was written in 1819:<br/> 'A tear trembles in her soft blue eyes. Was she   thinking of her faithless lover? Or were her   thoughts wandering to that distant churchyard   into whose bosom she might soon be gathered?.'<br/>Irving's story told of an only daughter who was  'the pride of the village'. One year she was the May Queen and caught the attention of a young army officer. When his love proved to be false, the girl pined away in her parents' cottage.  </p>
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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults book - non-specific comforting compassion despair diseases and conditions domestic emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas holding hands illness interiors Irving, Washington, ‘The Pride of the Village’ leisure and pastimes literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) living room love man, old objects people reading reading, writing, printed matter recreational activities sadness sitting spinning wheel tools and machinery woman woman, old