Painting
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1979.020.13.1
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- 1800-1850
- Description:
- Landscape painting, untitled, unknown artist, 1800-1850. Oil on paper. One of four views of the English gardens in Munich, Germany. Large stone monument (Count Rumford's) with square base, scrolls at sides and pedimented top. Two carved allegorical figures below the entablature. Four figures stand at the base of the monument; boy dressed in a military costume center; a woman in a red dress and a man in a military costume center left; and a girl with a pink dress, bonnet, and dog left. Trees in the background. Unsigned. Label pasted on the backboard: "(Concord 3d June 1852.) This is the other side of the monument erected to Count Rumford previous to his death --the monument was placed in the English garden." Gilded gesso over molded wood frame.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-7.25 W-11.25 inches
- Provenance:
- Originally owned by Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford, who bequeathed her collection of family portraits to her cousin Joseph Burbeen Walker (1822-1913) in 1852. The portraits then passed to his son Charles R. Walker (1852-1922), and to his grandson Sheafe Walker, the donor.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Sheafe Walker
- People:
- Count Rumford
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