Oil paint on canvas
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Outside AleHouse Door
Bequeathed by George Salting 1910
actions: expressive
adults
architecture
clothing and personal items
door
drink, beer
drinking
eating and drinking
features
food and drink
furnishings
hat
leisure and pastimes
man
objects
people
places of entertainment
public house / bar
staff
stool
table
talking
<p>Pictures of country peasants at work  and play were popular with urban art audiences in the late-eighteenth  century. They provided a reassuring  vision of timeless rural life. In reality  the countryside was changing rapidly,  with the introduction of modern  farming techniques and the growth  of political unrest.</p><p>Morland specialised in such scenes, though his treatment of rough rural characters sometimes went beyond  what was acceptable to polite viewers.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2002</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
22 October 2001 – 23 March 2003
2003-03-23
22 October 2001 – 23 March 2003
2003-03-23
2001-10-22
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-10-22
Landscape and Empire
Collection based display
17 March 2015 – 11 July 2015
2015-07-11
17 March 2015 – 11 July 2015
2015-07-11
2015-03-17
Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery (Leeds, UK)
2015-03-17
George Morland: In the Margins
Loan-out
Outside the Ale-House Door
support: 349 × 273 mm
frame: 560 × 483 × 97 mm
Bequeathed by George Salting 1910
<p>
Pictures of country peasants at work <br/>
and play were popular with urban art audiences in the late-eighteenth <br/>
century. They provided a reassuring <br/>
vision of timeless rural life. In reality <br/>
the countryside was changing rapidly, <br/>
with the introduction of modern <br/>
farming techniques and the growth <br/>
of political unrest. </p>
<p>
 </p>
<p>
Morland specialised in such scenes, though his treatment of rough rural characters sometimes went beyond <br/>
what was acceptable to polite viewers.</p>
<p>
 </p>
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2002-10-07T00:00:00
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actions: expressive adults architecture clothing and personal items door drink, beer drinking eating and drinking features food and drink furnishings hat leisure and pastimes man objects people places of entertainment public house / bar staff stool table talking