The image is an etching showing a man standing inside a building, visible from the waist up and leaning out of a window with his body angled slightly toward the viewer. He is holding a piece of paper in his hands, examining it closely. A woman is outside, her back turned to the viewer, with her hair tucked under a bonnet. She wears a long dress and her body is slightly angled as she looks towards the man in the window. The etching is set against a backdrop of a building's façade, with details of brickwork and wooden window frames visible around the window where the man stands. The window is…
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Woman at a Window, Reading a Letter

Sir David Wilkie (Scottish, 1785 - 1841)

c. 1813

Medium
etching on chine collé
Classification
Print
Dimensions
plate: 8.3 x 4 cm (3 1/4 x 1 9/16 in.) ; page size: 44.5 x 29.9 cm (17 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.)
Culture
Scottish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
Gift of Richard A. Simms
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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