Exercises on Prepositions: Describing a Painting

Instructions

Fill in the following prepositions:
at, by, from, in, of, on, over, since, through, to, with
You will have to use most of them more than once. Use a dictionary to look them up if you do not know them.

For mobile users: The Hopper painting can be seen below.

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Picture Description: Girl at Sewing Machine

The painting "Girl Sewing Machine" Edward Hopper 1921 is oil canvas and measures 48.3 46 centimeters. It is display the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Madrid, Spain. It depicts the loneliness and alientation of women in the industrialised world of the early 20th century.

The eye-catcher the painting is the white dress the girl who is placed the middle the bottom half the painting. She is sitting a wooden chair, slightly bent her work. Her long, red hair is untied and flowing her shoulders. she is bending her work and one can see her right side, her hair is covering almost her entire face. One can only see her nose.

The girl can be seen head knee, her feet and calves are not painted. She is sitting her sewing machine, which one can also see the side, front a window, which the sun is shining. The sewing machine is standing top a table a wooden top and iron legs. the sewing machine, there is white material which the girl is working .

The window is painted the right. It is rather large and you cannot see the top it. the left-hand side, one can see half a dressing table a mirror which has an ornate wooden frame. the dressing table, there are a perfume bottle and a hair brush. the background, one can see the wall the room which is painted orange. the background the wall the middle the painting there is a small painting a brown frame. the wall you can also see the shadow the window. the bottom right-hand corner there is some red material. the top, one can only see the wall and the upper half the window.

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Hopper Girl at Sewing Machine — Edward Hopper [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
*Girl at Sewing Machine*