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A pair of wooden children's wheelbarrows mid nineteenth century
Painted wood and metal | 38.0 x 37.2 x 109.6 cm (whole object) | RCIN 42998
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England
Master: A pair of wooden children's wheelbarrows Item: Child's wheelbarrow mid nineteenth century
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Item: Child's wheelbarrow Master: A pair of wooden children's wheelbarrows
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England
Master: A pair of wooden children's wheelbarrows Item: Child's wheelbarrow mid nineteenth century
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A pair of dark brown painted wooden children's wheel-barrows. Deep barrow with a curved front edge and smooth handles. Metal painted single front wheel.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert chose to spend as much time as they could outdoors, and encouraged their children to do the same. Their family life in the gardens at Osborne frequently formed the subject of Queen Victoria’s watercolour sketches, which show the informal and private existence that they were able to enjoy there. Prince Albert, however, ordained that the royal children were not only to play in the gardens at Osborne, but were also to learn the skills of gardening.
Each child was allocated a small, rectangular plot, together with their own gardening implements, including rakes and wheelbarrows, and they were taught how to cultivate flowers, fruit and vegetables.
Text adapted from Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden, London, 2015.Provenance
Part of a set of gardening tools belonging to the children of Queen Victoria, recorded in an inventory of Swiss Cottage, 1904.
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Painted wood and metal
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38.0 x 37.2 x 109.6 cm (whole object)
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