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The Village Gossips

Photo credit: Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

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Tea-drinking had become a social custom in the country by the early nineteenth century and these two village gossips are taking tea with as much ceremony as their smart town cousins would have. Their tea service is fairly fashionable, a copper kettle sits on a brazier and the tray, which looks like silver, is more likely to be Sheffield-plate. Sharples enjoyed some critical and popular success as an artist and in 1829 she exhibited this painting in Liverpool and Dublin.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Bristol

Title

The Village Gossips

Date

c.1828

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 73 x W 59 cm

Accession number

K1076

Acquisition method

purchased, 1931

Work type

Painting

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