Images: Manchester Art Gallery.

• Media: oil on canvas.
• Dimensions: 71.4 x 53.6 cm.
• History:
  • 1898 – Signed and dated lower left.
  • 1903 – Exhibited Whitchapel Art Gallery Spring Exhibition, 20 Mar to 30 Apr, lent by the artist.
  • 1904 – “a little rustic girl seated with an orange in her hand” (source?); exhibited at Mr. Baillies Gallery, Prince’s Terrace, Bayswater, “full of good colour” (Pall Mall Gazette, London, 6 Oct. 1904) [1].
  • 1911 – “Gift [to Manchester Art Gallery] from The Friends of Manchester City Galleries.”
• Location: Manchester Art Gallery.

The 1904 references, courtsey of Mike Stewart, presumed to refer to Little Annie Rooney because of the obvious similarity in the quoted description – “seated” and “an orange in her hand”.

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