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Title: The Language of Flowers

Object Name: painting

Artist/Maker: Dunlop, Leslie George
Role in production: artist
Place of Creation: Europe, United Kingdom, England
Date: 1885

Accession Number: 1900.9
Image Copyright: © Manchester City Galleries

Physical Description

Medium / Material
  • oil paint/
Support

canvas

Technique
  • oil on canvas
Description

Two young women in a drawing room with a trug full of flowers. One woman, in a white dress, sits on a leather upholstered sofa to the right looking up flowers in a large book on her lap, a wide brimmed hat tied round her neck and resting against her shoulders. The second woman, in a dark dress, lounges across the arm of the sofa, studying a pair of scissors in her hand in a slightly bored fashion. The overflowing trug sits at their feet to the left of the sofa, single flowers and leaves spilling out onto the floor. There is a panelled wall behind them with a door and embroidered bell pull to the left.

Dimensions

Type: unframed
Height: 112.3 cm
Width: 145.0 cm
Depth:

Type: framed
Height: 152.8
Width: 186.3
Depth: 12.2