Pamela tells a nursery tale, by Joseph Highmore

An image of Pamela tells a nursery tale. Highmore, Joseph (British, 1692-1780). Oil on canvas, height 62.9 cm, width 74.7 cm, circa 1744.

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Pamela tells a nursery tale. Highmore, Joseph (British, 1692-1780). Oil on canvas, height 62.9 cm, width 74.7 cm, circa 1744.

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Accession Number: M.Add.9
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 854 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 154.54kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 11/1
Captured: 2015:08:10 13:38:22

Key words

18th Century bed bedchamber bedroom bonnet British British School characters child childhood children clothes clothing cot cradle crib dress English fashion fashionable female fictional Fitz_PDP Georgian gown Highmore infancy infants interior Jonathan Richardson Joseph Highmore kids lady literary figures maids maidservant nursemaid nursery nursery tale nurses oil on canvas painting Pamela woman women

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