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Anxiety
(c. 1899)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 60.5 × 76.3 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in charcoal on reverse: H Ramsay
- Accession Number
- 1200-4
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs James Ramsay, 1943
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Intimacy with death was common in Victorian society. In particular, infant mortality was high with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera and smallpox claiming the lives of young children across all classes. Here Ramsay gives expression to the psychological dimension of this reality by showing motherhood as a continual state of anxiety and concern.
- Subjects (general)
- Emotions and Mental States Human Figures Relationships and Interactions
- Subjects (specific)
- anxiety cradles (children's beds) gesture infants maternity mortality mothers
Colourmen
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- Colourman
- WINSOR & NEWTON
- Location of stamp
- Centre reverse of canvas
- Transcript
- WINSOR & NEWTON'S/No 2 QUALITY....CANVAS,/RATHBONE PLACE, LONDON, W.
- Medium
- Ink stamp
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