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William Powell-Frith - Derby Day (1852).
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William Powell-Frith: Derby Day Sarah Naomi Lewisohn Centre number: 10148 Candidate number: List of Illustrations 1. William Powell-Frith 2. William Powell-Frith Derby Day 1852 Oil on canvas Tate Britain, London 3. William Powell-Frith Derby Day 1852 (Detail: Child Acrobat Looking at Footman laying Out Food) Oil on canvas Tate Britain, London 4. William Powell-Frith Derby Day 1852 (Detail: Thimble Rigging) Oil on canvas Tate Britain, London 5. William Powell-Frith Derby Day 1852 Oil on canvas Tate Britain, London 6. William Powell-Frith Derby Day 1852 (Detail: Young City Gent) Oil on canvas Tate Britain, London 7. William Powell-Frith Derby Day 1852 (Detail: Woman Sitting in Carriage with Fortune Teller) Oil on Canvas Tate Britain, London 8. William Powell-Frith Derby day 1852 (Detail: Flower Seller) Oil on canvas Tate Britain, London 9. John Leech Punch Introduction The morally and socially degrading activity of gambling was most likely to be William Powell Frith's (Ill. 1) main motivation for painting Derby Day (1858). (Ill. 2). In Victorian Britain, gambling was regarded as an...
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