Cottage interior

1852 · Oil painting · 19.7 × 29.8 cm

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Victoria and Albert Museum

London, United Kingdom

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked: 7 days ago
In this state since: Sep 25, 2026
Source: The museum's own collection data

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About the painting

Most of Hardy's paintings are scenes of cottage life. He exhibited ninety-three of them at the Royal Academy between 1851 and 1898. This painting of a cottage interior is fairly unusual in not including any figures, apart from a sleeping cat. Indeed, it was once catalogued, misleadingly, as a 'still-life'.

Victoria and Albert Museum

Particulars

Accession number: F.15

What it shows

Cottage Buckinghamshire

In the catalog

British School Victorian Great Britain

Sources

Victoria and Albert Museum: the museum's own open data · fetched 7 days ago
Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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