Poverty and Wealth by William Powell Frith, RA (original) (raw)

Oil sketch of this group (from The Railway Station)

William Powell Frith, RA

1862

Oil on canvas

Private collection

Plate 86, Bills and Knight

Detail courtesy Yale University Press

The artist's family; note Frith wiping his brow, a detail he omitted from the painting.

Related Material

• Larger image of detail
• The artist's family in the finished painting

Bibliography

Bills, Mark, and Vivien Knight, eds. William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age. New Haven & London: Yale Univ. Press, 2006. 180 + xi pp. Hardback, £40.00. Paperback, £20.00. ISBN 0-300-12190-3. [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee]

Created 16 July 2007

Last modified 22 August 2024