The Cottage Toilette

The Cottage Toilette
Artist	David Wilkie
Year	1824
Type	Oil on mahogany, genre painting
Dimensions	30.1 cm× 38.4 cm(11.9 in× 15.1 in)
Location	Wallace Collection , London

The Cottage Toilette is an 1824 genre painting by the British artist David Wilkie. ^{[1] [2]} It depicts a scene from the 1725 play The Gentle Shepherd by the Scottish writer Allan Ramsay.

The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1824 at Somerset House in London. ^[3] Today the work is in the Wallace Collection in Marylebone, having been acquired in 1853 by Marquess of Hertford. ^[4]

References

1. Wright, Gordon & Smith p.824
2. Ingamells p.193
3. Tromans p.11
4. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-cottage-toilet-209369

Bibliography

• Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection: British, German, Italian, Spanish. Wallace Collection, 1985.
• Tromans, Nicholas. David Wilkie: The People's Painter. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
• Wright, Christopher, Gordon, Catherine May & Smith, Mary Peskett. British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yale University Press, 2006.