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BIGG, William Redmore R. A.        1755 - 1828

A-656   |: [[underline]] "The Performing Dog"[[/underline]] :|

|: 25 x 30 Canvas. :|

Engraved in stipple by John Ogborne.

A scene before a cottage door, where a girl in grey coat, brown quilted petticoat, small black fichu shawl, long dark hair, white mob cap with pink ribbons, sits on a bench beside the door, mending an old green coat belonging to her younger brother. The boy in brown breeches, red waistcoat and white shirt, stands before her, and is holding a bowl of milk in his left hand while he offers a spoonful of it with his right to a white dog with black markings standing on his hind legs on an upturned basket with a whip in his left leg and the boy's large grey felt hat on his head. A tortoiseshell cat eats out of an earthenware bowl at the girl's feet, and in the foreground a hen and chick are feeding. To the left of the door a besom on which perches a robin and on the bench beside it an earthenware pitcher and a loaf of bread. To the right, pink hollyhocks against the cottage wall up which a creeping plant climbs; beyond, the pales of the garden.

COLLECTION: of the late Robert Nesham, Esq., of Utrecht House, Clapham Park.