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Pamela greets her father
(1743-1744)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 63.5 × 76.2 cm
- Accession Number
- 1116-3
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1921
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- 17th to 18th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Later in the novel, Squire B., who has become determined to marry Pamela, summons her father, Goodman Andrews, to witness his honourable intentions: ‘My master bid Mrs Jewkes [the housekeeper] not to let me know yet that my father was come … So down I came … I knew the voice … I gave a spring, and overturned the table without regard to the company, and threw myself at his feet.’
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Literary and Text Relationships and Interactions
- Subjects (specific)
- dresses (garments) fathers literary characters maids (servants) men (male humans) social classes virtue wigs
- Movements
- Rococo
- Frame
- Original, surface not original
Frame
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Joseph Highmore painted twelve scenes from Samuel Richards novel Pamela (1740-41) of which four are in the collection of the NGV.
The paintings date to 1743-44. The four paintings are housed in nearly identical frames.
The frame on Pamela fainting is slightly at variance with the other three, either through restoration or being a later reproduction to fit the group.The painting was cleaned in 2002.
- Framemaker
- Unknown - 18th century