A girl is held by her mother as another woman pierces her ear for an earring. Engraving after D. Wilkie, 1835.

  • Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.
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1830-1839
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35565i
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A girl is held by her mother as another woman pierces her ear for an earring. Engraving after D. Wilkie, 1835. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1830-1839

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1 print : engraving ; image 37.8 x 29.9 cm

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Painted by Sir David Wilkie R.A.

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Wellcome Collection 35565i

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After a painting exhibited in 1835 as "The first ear-ring":"The first earring (exh. RA, 1835; Tate collection), painted for John, sixth duke of Bedford, was the first of five pictures [by Wilkie] treating upper-class female domestic life." (Oxford dictionary of national biography

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