{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1244547"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1244547/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2018KR8880/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2018KR8880/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2018KR8880","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2006AL4062","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2018LF2216","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O1244547/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1244547","accessionNumber":"P.29-1983","objectType":"Pencil drawing","titles":[{"title":"John Varley, William Mulready and others sketching at a table","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Pencil drawing of John Varley, William Mulready and others sketching at a table.  Signed and dated by the artist alongside the initials of those portrayed.  This may well represent a sketching session at John Varley's house.  MD is probably Maria Denham, sister-in-law of John Flaxman; the hat presumably belonged to Elizabeth Mulready, Varley's sister whom Mulready had married earlier that year and the others may be identified as Matilda Lowry, daughter of Wilson Lowry (whose younger sister was to marry Varley in 1825);  John Varley, Hannah Varley (1780-1826), John's sister, and John's pupil and brother-in-law, William Mulready.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Mary Ann Flaxman","id":"N3654"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"},{"text":"pencil","id":"x30347"}],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing","id":"x32498"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Pencil drawing","categories":[{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2018KR8880","2006AL4062","2018LF2216"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLH","id":"THES49654"},"free":"","case":"PD","shelf":"181","box":"A"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawing","id":"AAT33973"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"drawn","id":"x30545"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"29/12/1803","earliest":"1803-12-29","latest":"1803-12-29"},"association":{"text":"drawn","id":"x30545"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"16.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"21.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from departmental notes","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"MF fecit","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"Mary Flaxman made this","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""},{"content":"Decr. 29 1803","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""},{"content":"MD, EMs hat, ML, JV, HV, WM","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"The initials of those portrayed in the drawing"}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Pencil drawing of John Varley, William Mulready and others sketching at a table, by Mary Anne Flaxman.  Great Britain, 1803.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Barber, Tabitha (editor) et al <u>Now you see us: women artists in Britain 1520-1920</u> London: Tate Publishing, 2024. ISBN 9781849769259."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"William Mulready","id":"N12265"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"sketch","id":"AAT15617"},{"text":"table","id":"x31811"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["P.29-1983"],"accessionNumberNum":"29","accessionNumberPrefix":"P","accessionYear":1983,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-05","recordCreationDate":"2012-03-14","availableToBook":false}}