La Loteria Nacional: Buying the Tickets

John Phillip (1817 - 1867)

The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum

1861 - 1867

A crowd gathers near the office of the ticket seller including a priest and a muledriver. One of a pair of large canvases which Phillip started in Seville in 1861, the companion piece 'La Lotteria Nacional: Reading the Numbers', showing the sequel.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 130 x 168 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £2000 ( Total: £8,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1983
• Vendor: Christie's

Provenance

James Orrock, Christies 1895; Lord Wraxall sold Christies and Edmistons, Glasgow, 1981.

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