Picture from Antanarivo and Gainsborough

Accession Number
2016/2.144

Title
Picture from Antanarivo and Gainsborough

Artist(s)
Joanne Leonard

Object Creation Date
2006

Medium & Support
inkjet print on paper

Dimensions
24 in x 36 in (60.96 cm x 91.44 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of the artist

Subject matter
The text that accompanies the image reads : December 1, 2006, news photo: Mother and children in Madagascer, Lynsey Addario, New York Times. Book reproduction: 'The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly,' Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1765 in 'The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830,' by James Christen Steward (University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkley, in association with the University of Washington Press, 1995)

Physical Description
Image of a book lying open to a page featuring a painting of two children. A newsclipping featuring a photo of a woman and two children is lying on the open book. 

Primary Object Classification
Photograph

Primary Object Type
color

Collection Area
Photography

Rights
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3 Related Resources

Satire
(Part of 4 Learning Collections)
Mothers and Children
(Part of 10 Learning Collections)

& Author Notes

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