The Ballad Seller by Daniel Maclise (1858)

Oil painting of a woman in a red hood holding a ballad sheet, with a sleeping baby, apples, and lilac blossoms.

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The painting shows a young woman in a red hooded shawl and yellow bodice holding a printed ballad sheet, with a sleeping infant on her back and a basket of apples on her arm. Blue lilac blossoms and ivy frame the scene, and a small bird perches on the fence at right. Daniel Maclise painted this work in 1858.

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Date

1858

Medium

Painting

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Public domain