Frederick Coke Smyth (c.1800-1882) – IMS Photography https://ims.photography Ian Malpass-Scott Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:42:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 An Old Jew and a Young Woman https://ims.photography/2024/06/20/an-old-jew-and-a-young-woman/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:29:00 +0000 https://blog.ims.photography/?p=1618 Watercolour on paper, An Old Jew and a Young Woman, by Frederick Coke Smyth (c.1800-1882), monogrammed. An old man holding a bunch of keys and putting a coin into the palm of a peasant girl who holds a folded sheet of paper.

Provenance: Armstrong collection. Transferred by the Treasury to The National Trust in 1977 via the National Land Fund, aided by 3rd Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside (1919 – 1987).

Marks and inscriptions: signed bottom mid-left, about a quarter of the way up on the left-hand-side, with a monogram of a cursive S through a C

Text from the National Trust website

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Cragside, Rothbury, Northumberland
Material: Watercolour on paper
Artist: Frederick Coke Smyth (c.1800-1882)
Date: 19th century

Image Details
Date: 20 June 2024
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/50s
ISO: 320
Licensing: Image of a National Trust asset. This image cannot be licensed.

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