The Cottage Toilette
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| The Cottage Toilette | |
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| Artist | David Wilkie |
| Year | 1824 |
| Type | Oil on mahogany, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 30.1 cm × 38.4 cm (11.9 in × 15.1 in) |
| Location | Wallace Collection , London |
The Cottage Toilette is an 1824 genre painting by the British artist David Wilkie.[1][2] It depicts a scene from the 1725 play The Gentle Shepherd by the Scottish writer Allan Ramsay.
The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1824 at Somerset House in London.[3] Today the work is in the Wallace Collection in Marylebone, having been acquired in 1853 by Marquess of Hertford.[4]
