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Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
An Audience Fit Tho' Few: A Reading of the Story of Robinson Crusoe
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

An Audience Fit Tho' Few: A Reading of the Story of Robinson Crusoe

Artist James Riddel (Scottish, 1857 - 1928)
CultureScottish
Date1890
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 16 x 36 in. (40.6 x 91.4 cm)
InscribedSigned and dated 1890.
Credit LineGift of the Norfolk Foundation
Object number2000.7.2
Collections
Not on view
DescriptionThis oil on canvas painting is an idyllic genre scene of children entranced by Daniel Defoe's famous adventure story, Robinson Crusoe.

Label TextJames Riddel Scottish (1857-1928) An Audience Fit Tho' Few: A Reading of the Story of Robinson Crusoe, 1890 Oil on canvas Gift of the Norfolk Foundation 2000.7.2 Edited By: DS Edited Date: 08/2005 Approved By: MHM Approval Date: 10/11/2005ProvenancePeter Tillou Works of Art, New York, 1998; Mr. Perry Morgan, 1998; Gift of the Norfolk Foundation to the Chrysler Museum of Art, 2000. Exhibition History"Behind the Seen: The Chrysler's Hidden Museum," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., October 21, 2005 - February 19, 2006.
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