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Alexander George Fraser

Scottish genre and domestic painter (1786-1865)

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Images by Alexander George Fraser

4 images from works
  • A Quaker family are sitting at the dinner table and the father has his hands together as he gives thanks for the food. Mezzotint by Charles G. Lewis after Alexander Fraser.
  • An old wizard sitting within a magic circle at his desk visited by a nobleman. Engraving by T. Engleheart after A. Fraser the elder.
  • People are crowded around a table on which there is a large dish of oysters, a waterman with an oar looks on, and a boy is emptying more oysters out of a donkey's panniers. Engraving by William Greatbach after A. Fraser.
  • A group of urchins have caused havoc in a farmyard and killed a cockerel but they are pursued by the dog and a man with a birch stick. Engraved by Charles Rolls after Alexander Fraser.
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    An old wizard sitting within a magic circle at his desk visited by a nobleman. Engraving by T. Engleheart after A. Fraser the elder.

    Alexander George Fraser | Reference: 37903i
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    People are crowded around a table on which there is a large dish of oysters, a waterman with an oar looks on, and a boy is emptying more oysters out of a donkey's panniers. Engraving by William Greatbach after A. Fraser.

    Alexander George Fraser | Date: [1841?] | Reference: 30497i
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    A group of urchins have caused havoc in a farmyard and killed a cockerel but they are pursued by the dog and a man with a birch stick. Engraved by Charles Rolls after Alexander Fraser.

    Alexander George Fraser | Date: 1841 | Reference: 27213i
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    A Quaker family are sitting at the dinner table and the father has his hands together as he gives thanks for the food. Mezzotint by Charles G. Lewis after Alexander Fraser.

    Alexander George Fraser | Date: Feby. 14 1837 | Reference: 28667i

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