id:			95257
accession number:	1916.1030
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1030
updated:		2024-03-26 01:56:11.321000

Street Singer and Child, 1700s. John Opie (British, 1761–1807). Oil on canvas; framed: 100 x 87.5 x 11 cm (39 3/8 x 34 7/16 x 4 5/16 in.); unframed: 76.5 x 64.3 cm (30 1/8 x 25 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1030

title:				Street Singer and Child
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creation date:			1700s
creation date earliest:		1761
creation date latest:		1807
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creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
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culture:	England, 18th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - British before 1800
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* John Opie (British, 1761–1807)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 100 x 87.5 x 11 cm (39 3/8 x 34 7/16 x 4 5/16 in.); Unframed: 76.5 x 64.3 cm (30 1/8 x 25 5/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Inscribed across book: "LOVE/CLOWN (N or R). 
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
	opening date:   1941-06-23T04:00:00
	<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

	title:		The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood 1730-1830
	opening date:   1995-08-23T04:00:00
	<i>The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood 1730-1830</i>. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (organizer) (August 23-November 19, 1995); Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN (December 10, 1995-February 4, 1996); Joslyn Art Museum (March 9-May 5, 1996).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1898: "Collection of Pictures Principally of the English School Loaned to the Carnegie Institute by R. Hall McCormick, Esq., Chicago, cat. no. 36, p. 25.', 'opening_date': None}

* {'description': 'Cleveland (1913), "Cleveland Art Loan Exhibition," Held in the Kinney &amp; Levan Building, cat. no. 133b.', 'opening_date': '1913-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, 1937: Survey of English Painting (no catalogue)', 'opening_date': '1937-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Reverend Thomas Collyer of Gislingham, near Eye, Suffolk (sale: Christie's, London, July 26,1890, no. 181, to Smith);
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	Lord Bateman, Kelmarsh Hall, Northamptonshire (sale: Christie's, London, April 11, 1896, no. 115); [Blakeslee Galleries, New York];
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	R. Hall McCormick, Chicago;
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	[Blakeslee Galleries, New York, 1900];
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	Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha H. Wade, Cleveland. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Wade, 1916.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 207; Mentioned: p. 206
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	"The Wade Collection." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 1 (1917): 3-12.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 3
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136053

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IMAGES

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