Three Girls and a Donkey

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-173

Artist: MacBeth, Robert Walker

Date: 1887

State: 1/1

Size: 33.0 x 64.8 cm

Medium: Etching

Alternative Title(s) Three Girls and a Donkey (after George Mason) or The Ways of Life
Details Etching. Brown ink on thick paper. Lettered bottom centre: ‘Published 1 January 1887 by Robt. Dunthorne at The Rembrandt Head in Vigo Street, W.’Label on back (Dunthorne) calls it ‘The Ways of Life’ and states ‘Etching. Artist’s Proof’. Graphite signature bottom right.
Description Based on Mason’s unlocated painting. Mason (1818-1872) was an English painter of idyllic rural scenes.
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