Allegory

Allegory

Allegory

Artist:William Etty (British, York 1787–1849 York)

Medium:Oil on canvas, laid down on wood

Dimensions:Oval, 28 x 34 1/2 in. (71.1 x 87.6 cm)

Classification:Paintings

Provenance

Arthur Kay, Tregortha, Glasgow (by 1904–11; his sale, Christie's, London, May 11–12, 1911, no. 262, as "An Allegory of Plenty", for £21 to Gooden & Fox); [Gooden & Fox, London, 1911; sold to Lever]; Sir William Hesketh Lever, Baronet, later Baron Leverhulme, still later 1st Viscount Leverhulme, Thornton Manor, Thornton Hough, Wirral, Cheshire, and The Hill, Hampstead (1911–d. 1925; his estate sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, February 17, 1926, no. 79, for $400 to Hawkins); J. T. Hawkins (from 1926); [Martin Birnbaum, New York, by 1958–59; as "The Wood Nymph's Family, the project for a Palace Ceiling"]

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