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The Irish Question, 1880s. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 30.5 × 25.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Realism
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- Museum title
- The Irish Question
- Artist
- De Scott Evans American, 1847–1898
- Date
- 1880s
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30.5 × 25.4 cm (12 × 10 in.)
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Carol W. Wardlaw and Jill Burnside Zeno; Roger and J. Peter McCormick Endowment Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.