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Truth - 'A little child having lowered her bucket into an old and disused well was surprised to see therein standing the very goddess of truth herself who having shewn her face in a glass and filled her bucket with sweet water from her well, straightaway vanished.'
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George William Joy (1844-1925)
Truth - 'A little child having lowered her bucket into an old and disused well was surprised to see therein standing the very goddess of truth herself who having shewn her face in a glass and filled her bucket with sweet water from her well, straightaway vanished.'
inscribed 'Truth and a little child/by George W. Joy/The Red Lodge/Palace Court Bayswater' (on an old label on the reverse)
oil on canvas
102 x 38 in. (259.1 x 97.2 cm.)
Truth - 'A little child having lowered her bucket into an old and disused well was surprised to see therein standing the very goddess of truth herself who having shewn her face in a glass and filled her bucket with sweet water from her well, straightaway vanished.'
inscribed 'Truth and a little child/by George W. Joy/The Red Lodge/Palace Court Bayswater' (on an old label on the reverse)
oil on canvas
102 x 38 in. (259.1 x 97.2 cm.)
Provenance
Berlin National Gallery; Christie's London, 24 October 1980, lot 51.
Literature
H. Blackburn, Royal Academy Notes, 1893, p.71, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1893, no. 248
Berlin, International Kunst Ausstellung, 1896 (from where purchased by the National Gallery, Inv. no. A.I. 688)
Berlin, International Kunst Ausstellung, 1896 (from where purchased by the National Gallery, Inv. no. A.I. 688)