The Village Baker

Description
‘The Village Baker’ by John Cranch, late-18th to early-19th Century. This oil painting depicts a baker, pulling a bread oven peel with loaf atop out of a bread oven. Behind a lead framed window is seen with pine scullery table with loaves of bread seen spread out.
Accession Loan No.
57/1949/2
Collection Class
Paintings
Medium
oil on panel
Common Name
The Village Baker
Simple Name
painting
Full Name
The Village Baker
Dimensions
panel height 138 mm; panel length 156 mm; frame height 187 mm; frame length 204 mm
Production Person Surname
Cranch
Production Person Initials
John
Period Classification
Georgian (1714-1837)
Production Year Low
1780
Production Year High
1820
Production Town
Bath
Production Country
United Kingdom: England
Production Area Region
Northern Europe
Production Continent
Europe
Family Group

Inscription / Transcription
Cranch ; Cranch no.6
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