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GERARD DOW.
dressed in a crimson jacket bordered with ermine, and a
yellow satin petticoat. She has taken her infant from a
cradle which stands by, and is osfering it the breast. A
table covered with a red carpet is on her right; an open
book, a candlestick with two branches, and a silver ewer and
basin, are on the table. On the opposite side is a fine an-
tique chair, beyond which the view extends into an adjacent
room, where is seen a doctor performing an operation on
a patient’s mouth, to which his pupil, leaning on the sill of a
window, is paying studious attention, while an elderly woman
stands by much asfected at the sufferings of the patient.
2 st. 9 in. by 2st. 3 in.—P. {arched.'}
This highly estimable production was enclosed by covers, which,
when opened, exhibited on the left
29. A Gentleman of a middle age, wearing spectacles,
seated in an arm-chair, mending a pen by the light of a can-
dle placed on a desk before him, on which are also an hour-
glass and other objects.
30. The opposite cover represents an Evening School by
candlelight. A young woman and two youths are here seen
grouped round a table ; the former, dressed in a scarlet gown
and a blue apron, is seated drawing something on a slate, to
which one of the latter is pointing; the remaining person is
also seated drawing on a sheet of blue paper. In the back
of the room may be perceived a group of three children, and
a young woman descending some stairs with a lighted candle
in her hand. See No. 38, Vol. I.
Size of the two latter pictures is 2 st. 9 in. by 1 st. 2 in.—P.
The above description was taken from very excellent copies by
Laquey (the originals having been lost at sea, with many other sine
pictures, while on their way to Russia), now in the splendid Col-
lection of M. Six Van Hillegom.
GERARD DOW.
dressed in a crimson jacket bordered with ermine, and a
yellow satin petticoat. She has taken her infant from a
cradle which stands by, and is osfering it the breast. A
table covered with a red carpet is on her right; an open
book, a candlestick with two branches, and a silver ewer and
basin, are on the table. On the opposite side is a fine an-
tique chair, beyond which the view extends into an adjacent
room, where is seen a doctor performing an operation on
a patient’s mouth, to which his pupil, leaning on the sill of a
window, is paying studious attention, while an elderly woman
stands by much asfected at the sufferings of the patient.
2 st. 9 in. by 2st. 3 in.—P. {arched.'}
This highly estimable production was enclosed by covers, which,
when opened, exhibited on the left
29. A Gentleman of a middle age, wearing spectacles,
seated in an arm-chair, mending a pen by the light of a can-
dle placed on a desk before him, on which are also an hour-
glass and other objects.
30. The opposite cover represents an Evening School by
candlelight. A young woman and two youths are here seen
grouped round a table ; the former, dressed in a scarlet gown
and a blue apron, is seated drawing something on a slate, to
which one of the latter is pointing; the remaining person is
also seated drawing on a sheet of blue paper. In the back
of the room may be perceived a group of three children, and
a young woman descending some stairs with a lighted candle
in her hand. See No. 38, Vol. I.
Size of the two latter pictures is 2 st. 9 in. by 1 st. 2 in.—P.
The above description was taken from very excellent copies by
Laquey (the originals having been lost at sea, with many other sine
pictures, while on their way to Russia), now in the splendid Col-
lection of M. Six Van Hillegom.