FIVE IN A PRISON CELL

Artist ROBERT WALTER WEIR (1803 - 1889)

DateNo date

CountryUSA

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 64.1 × 76.5 cm (25 1/4 × 30 1/8")

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineBrigham Young University Museum of Art, purchase/gift of Mahonri M. Young Estate

Terms

Object number930350000

DescriptionThis is a horizontal, unfinished oil painting. At center is a seated man, facing the the viewer. At the man's proper left is a figure sketched in, slumped in their seat. On the man's proper right are three figures sketched in who are hunched over and leaning into the man's side. They all appear to be in an enclosed, stone room.

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