Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Robert Vernon
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-david-wilkie-600" aria-label="More by Sir David Wilkie" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir David Wilkie</a>
PeepoDay Boys Cabin in West Ireland
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
animals: birds
animals: mammals
axe
baby
chicken
children
countries and continents
dog - non-specific
domestic
family
family
gun, rifle
history
interior - non-specific
interiors
Ireland
man
objects
people
places
politics and society
protests and unrest: Peep-o’-Day Boys, 18th c.
sitting
sleeping
society
spinning wheel
tools and machinery
weapons
woman
<p>Some of Wilkie’s most popular pictures showed life and folk traditions in rural Scotland, familiar from his boyhood. Later, in 1835, he visited Ireland, which he compared to Spain for its picturesque potential. He exhibited this picture the following year. It evokes the ‘state of primeval simplicity’ he found in Galway and Connemara, while underplaying the political and religious unrest implied by the title.Peep-o’Day Boys were Protestant guerrillas. They raided Catholic rebels at dawn, during uprisings in the 1780s and 90s. Wilkie had first planned a more contentious subject: a Whiteboy, from another group who championed oppressed tenants.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
18 September 2002 – 1 December 2002
2002-12-01
18 September 2002 – 1 December 2002
2002-12-01
2002-09-18
Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, UK)
2002-09-18
David Wilkie, Genre Painting
Loan-out
26 July 2004 – 27 June 2005
2005-06-27
26 July 2004 – 27 June 2005
2005-06-27
2004-07-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-07-26
Art and National Identity
Collection based display
25 July 2005 – 26 July 2009
2009-07-26
25 July 2005
2005-07-25
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-07-25
Romantic Painting in Britain
Collection based display
The Peep-o’-Day Boys’ Cabin, in the West of Ireland
support: 1257 × 1753 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>Some of Wilkie’s most popular pictures showed life and folk traditions in rural Scotland, familiar from his boyhood. Later, in 1835, he visited Ireland, which he compared to Spain for its picturesque potential. He exhibited this picture the following year. It evokes the ‘state of primeval simplicity’ he found in Galway and Connemara, while underplaying the political and religious unrest implied by the title.Peep-o’Day Boys were Protestant guerrillas. They raided Catholic rebels at dawn, during uprisings in the 1780s and 90s. Wilkie had first planned a more contentious subject: a Whiteboy, from another group who championed oppressed tenants.</p>

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actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults animals: birds animals: mammals axe baby chicken children countries and continents dog - non-specific domestic family family gun, rifle history interior - non-specific interiors Ireland man objects people places politics and society protests and unrest: Peep-o’-Day Boys, 18th c. sitting sleeping society spinning wheel tools and machinery weapons woman