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Orphan girls entering the refectory of a hospital. Oil painting by Frederick Cayley Robinson, 1915.
- Robinson, Frederic Cayley, 1862-1927.
- Date
- 1915
- Reference
- 672831i
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Credit: Orphan girls entering the refectory of a hospital. Oil painting by Frederick Cayley Robinson, 1915. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Description
The painting shows the historic role of the hospital in bringing up and sustaining orphans and other needy people of all kinds. The Foundling Hospital established in London in 1739 is an example of a hospital that fulfilled that role. Much earlier, Domenico di Bartolo's frescoes in Siena had included a scene of the reception, bringing up, and marriage of girls entrusted to the hospital of that city. In the present painting the uniformed girls enter the refectory through an arched staircase on the left that Cayley Robinson derived from Edward Burne-Jones's painting The golden stairs (1876-1880: Tate Britain): the serpentine line which it initiates continues in the next painting in the pair.
Publication/Creation
1915.
Physical description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; sight 196 x 335.5 cm ; canvas 199 x 339 x 4 cm
Contributors
Lettering
Cayley - Robinson, 1915.
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 672831i
Type/Technique
Where to find it
"Orphans": left painting of two
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