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The Height of Ambition

Jacob Thompson, 1864

Genre scene depicting a group of children riding on a sledge laden with heather gathered for fuel. The children imagine that it is a grand carriage and one of the girls sits proudly atop the heather holding a burdock leaf as a parasol. The painting is the companion work to 'The Downfall of Pride', also at Penrith Museum, where the sledge has overturned and the children have tumbled out, completing the moral narrative.

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Title of artwork, date

The Height of Ambition, 1864

Date supported

2006

Medium and material

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

69 x 102 cm

Grant

4500

Total cost

18000

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