Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Sir Hubert von Herkomer, 1849–1914, British

Title:

Hackling Flax

Date:

1881

Materials & Techniques:

Oil on board

Dimensions:

Frame: 16 1/2 × 20 inches (41.9 × 50.8 cm)

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Collection, Gift of Alison Edwards Curwen

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B2015.18.14

Classification:

Paintings

Collection:

Paintings and Sculpture

Subject Terms:

flax | women | log cabin | genre subject | hatchels

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21)

Publications:

Lee MacCormick Edwards, Herkomer : a Victorian aritst, Ashgate Publishing, Brookfield, VT, 1999, p. 50, pl. XII, NJ18 H4463 E39 1999 Oversize (YCBA)

Hartfrid Neunzert, Mansel Lewis & Hubert Herkomer : Wales, England, Bavaria, Neues Stadtmuseum Landsberg a. Lech, Landsberg am Lech, 1999, p. 198, NJ18 H4463 M25 1999 (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Victorian Idyll, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, p. 26, V 2811

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:72039