Schoolboy with a Quill
notes: label: Description
content: This 19th Century oil painting is of a young boy doing a writing assignment using a quill pen. He is well-dressed and wears a blue suit and a white, ruffled shirt. He is seated at a bench desk, used in the first half of the 19th Century for recitation lessons. The artist’s signature is in red in the lower right corner; however, it is illegible. The painting has an elaborate, gilded wooden frame.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Education
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0095.071
label: accession number
content: 2017.0095
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0095.071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painting
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall (framed): 18 5/8 in x 13 3/4 in x 1 7/8 in; 47.3075 cm x 34.925 cm x 4.7625 cm
label: Measurements
content: image (unframed): 13 7/8 in x 9 1/8 in; 35.2425 cm x 23.1775 cm