Art, literature & history
Portrait of a Mother and Child
1823
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Graphite with watercolor and gouache (bodycolor)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 7 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (19.1 × 21.6 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2014.703.3
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Linnell. Portrait of a Mother and Child. John Linnell; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson, in memory of Laurie Vance Johnson and E. Dudley H. Johnson, 2014. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Portrait of a Mother and Child — John Linnell. 1823.
Medium: Graphite with watercolor and gouache (bodycolor). Dimensions: Sheet: 7 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (19.1 × 21.6 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson, in memory of Laurie Vance Johnson and E. Dudley H. Johnson, 2014.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.