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The image shows the interior of an art gallery exhibiting various sculptures and artifacts related to Victorian objects. The space features exposed wooden beams on the ceiling, contrasted with modern white walls. The exhibits are arranged throughout the room, including a large

FOLK ART

A Still Life with Cheese, Bread and Beer

Artist: James Booth Higginson
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J. B. Higginson is listed in the 1869 Directory for Madely, Staffordshire, as a painter and decorator. Other known works by him are of a similar composition. Unlike comparable still-life scenes in our Naples collection, where fruit and vegetables assume metaphorical value, this modest meal is recorded purely topographically. Historically a farm-house industry, British cheese began to be mass-produced from 1870 with the opening of England’s first cheese factory at Longford, near Derby. The tableware perhaps serves as evidence of British glass and cotton damask production in factories at the time. Donated by Christopher Bibby

Details

Artist
James Booth Higginson
Title
A Still Life with Cheese, Bread and Beer
Date
1870
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68.8 x 78.8 cm
Reference
CVCSC:0413.F
Collection
Folk Art
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