Study for "The Peep-O’-Day Boys’ Cabin, in the West of Ireland" ("The Sleeping Whiteboy")
1835
- Medium
- watercolor, point of brush, and gouache with graphite and brown ink
- Dimensions
- 23.4 × 21.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-193439
One of the greatest draftsmen of the British school, Sir David Wilkie painted slowly but drew prolifically, making studies upon which he relied to spur his imagination and compose his paintings. In this study for a painting exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1836, the artist worked out the details of a domestic interior. Here he depicted the corner of a cabin in Ireland where wool was processed: a pair of carders used to disentangle textile fibers and a spinning wheel rest upon a rough-hewn bench, and a swath of hand-dyed red cloth is flung over a ladder rung.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries, 1941.606
Registry history
- 1835 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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