Description
This amateur watercolor records an interior in Dr. Samuel Parr's substantial parsonage at Hatton, where he lived for three decades and ran a small private school for boys. We are shown three women whose dress suggests a date in the 1820s. An inscription once attached to the frame notes that the carved chair behind the table "had been for many years used in the House of Commons," was moved during alterations, passed through several owners, then presented to Dr. Parr. The text also identifies sitters in the portrait prints on the walls as Dr. Parr, Princess Charlotte, Sir Samuel Romilly, Mr. Horner-Johnson, [William] Paley, Thomas Warton, Joseph Warton, Gilbert Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith, Loweth and [Thomas] Twining. Medium: watercolor.
Image Licence
CC0 1.0
Image Credit
Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts
Location
Hatton, Warwick, Warwickshire, England
Country
England
Medium
Watercolour
Tags
Category
People & Society
