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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.
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120897
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Study for "The Peep-O’-Day Boys’ Cabin, in the West of Ireland" ("The Sleeping Whiteboy")
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drawing
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120897
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drawing
title
Study for "The Peep-O’-Day Boys’ Cabin, in the West of Ireland" ("The Sleeping Whiteboy")
description
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.
date
1835
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en
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Q80016569
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1453
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Drawing
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 23.4 x 21.9 cm (9 3/16 x 8 5/8 in.)
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England, 19th century
accession
1941.606
Source extras
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watercolor, point of brush, and gouache with graphite and brown ink
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Study for "The Peep-O’-Day Boys’ Cabin, in the West of Ireland" ("The Sleeping Whiteboy"), 1835. David Wilkie (British, 1785–1841). Watercolor, point of brush, and gouache with graphite and brown ink; sheet: 23.4 x 21.9 cm (9 3/16 x 8 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries, 1941.606
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beige wove paper
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DR - British
inscriptions
inscription
signed and dated, in brown ink, at lower right: DWilkie Novb 12th 1835
didYouKnow
The painting to which this drawing relates was purchased by the prominent collector Robert Vernon and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1836.
citations
citation
Johnson, Mark M. <em>Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.
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Mentioned and reproduced: p. 39, no. 30
citation
Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 78-79, 149, no. 25; Reproduced: p. 79
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Gift of Robert Hays Gries
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2026-05-29 06:14:12.206000
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120897
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DR - British
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watercolor, point of brush, and gouache with graphite and brown ink
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male
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