The Empress and her subjects in front of the oracle
Watercolor, ink and pencil on card stock
24.5 x 39.5 cm
Annotation on the cardboard on the reverse: Charles Wilkingson (1830- / work by youth - English painter / Canvases at the Museum of Sydney, Australia
Pretty watercolor by Charles Wilkinson, English painter, painted around 1850. Subject to be identified A woman dressed as an empress scolds an assembly of figures dressed in clothing from various eras and origins: Greeks, Romans, Ottoman Empire ...