David Wilkie

Literature

Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 120

Provenance

George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex, Cassiobury Park, Watford, Hertfordshire (1825—d. 1839)
Arthur Algernon Capel, 6th Earl of Essex, Cassiobury Park (1839—d. 1892)
sale, Christie's, London, 22 July 1893, nr. 49, to Sedelmeyer
with Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1893—at least 1894
with Knoedler, New York, about 1904
Morris K. Jesup, New York (until d. 1908)
Maria DeWitt (Mrs. Morris K.) Jesup, New York (1908—d. 1914)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, bequest of Maria DeWitt Jesup
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External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 15.30.52

Other works by David Wilkie

The Cut Finger
1809

The Village Holiday
1811

Boys Digging for Rats
1811-12

Pitlessie Fair
1804

The Chelsea Pensioners Receiving the London Gazette Extraordinary of Thursday, June 22d 1815, Announcing the Battle of Waterloo
1822