Study for "The Bride at Her Toilet on the Day of Her Wedding"

ca. 1838

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash
Dimensions: Sheet: 6 1/16 x 4 3/8 in. (15.4 x 11.1 cm)
Collection no.: 08.227.3
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Sir David Wilkie. Study for "The Bride at Her Toilet on the Day of Her Wedding". Sir David Wilkie; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1908. 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

Study for "The Bride at Her Toilet on the Day of Her Wedding" — Sir David Wilkie. ca. 1838.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash. Dimensions: Sheet: 6 1/16 x 4 3/8 in. (15.4 x 11.1 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1908.

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.

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