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The Fair Toxophilites (or English Archers, Nineteenth Century) (painting)

Fine Art

Ownership/credit: Purchased with support from the V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the Sir Harry Veitch Bequest Trust Fund.

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Descriptions

William Frith’s handsome young lady archers inhabit both a private and public pictorial world. Privately, English Archers, Nineteenth Century was created as a fanciful representation of the artist’s three daughters, Alice, Fanny and Louisa (left to right). Above all, the painting must have been valued as a novel family portrait and remained, rarely exhibited, with Frith’s descendants until acquired by the Museum. In the public sphere The Fair Toxophilites has become one of the most famous images of affluent Victorian leisure.



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WP Frith 1872
224MX 1722C0


This object is not on display.

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