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This Little Pig Went to Market, c. 1857. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 61 × 50.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- This Little Pig Went to Market
- Artist
- Lilly Martin Spencer (American, born England, 1822–1902)
- Date
- c. 1857
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61 × 50.8 cm (24 × 20 in.)
- Credit line
- Roger and J. Peter McCormick Endowment Fund; through prior acquisition of George F. Harding Collection; through prior gift of Chicago Normal School Alumni
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1822–1902
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.