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| Object Name: | painting |
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| Title: | Muscipula (The Mousetrap) |
| Artist/Maker: | Anthony Flower After Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| Category: | Art |
| Medium: | watercolour on paper |
| Accession Number: | 2013.3.16 |
| Origin-Province: | New Brunswick |
| Origin-Country: | Canada |
| Use-Province: | New Brunswick |
| Use-Country: | Canada |
| Culture: | Canadian |
| Earliest Production Date: | 1840-01-01 |
| Latest Production Date: | 1850-12-31 |
| Description: | Watercolour painting of a girl dressed in yellow and pink holding a mousetrap with a cat looking on. |
| Narrative: | Painted by Anthony Flower (1792-1875) about 1840-1850. This work is after Sir Joshua Reynolds', Muscipula (The Mousetrap) painted c. 1784-1785. The painting is the subject of several subsequent engravings and prints. Flower may have either seen the original or more likely had access to one of the prints. |
| Height: | 17.2 cm |
| Width: | 14.7 cm |
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| Institution City: | Gagetown |
| Institution Province: | New Brunswick |