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Gentle Critics (The Portfolio)

Emily Farmer · 1872

Emily Farmer: British, 1826 - 1905

UnclassifiedUnited Kingdom
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Emily Farmer, Emily Farmer, Emily Farmer

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Gentle Critics (The Portfolio)

1872

watercolor over traces of graphite with gum arabic and white gouache on wove paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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watercolor over traces of graphite with gum arabic and white gouache on wove paper
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sheet: 50.8 × 36.83 cm (20 × 14 1/2 in.)
Collection no.
2020.123.1
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By the artist
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CC0 1.0License details

Emily Farmer. Gentle Critics (The Portfolio). Emily Farmer; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; William B. O'Neal Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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Gentle Critics (The Portfolio) — Emily Farmer. 1872.

Medium: watercolor over traces of graphite with gum arabic and white gouache on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 50.8 × 36.83 cm (20 × 14 1/2 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2020.123.1. William B. O'Neal Fund.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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Emily Farmer. Gentle Critics (The Portfolio). Emily Farmer; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; William B. O'Neal Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.