Painting
- Title:
- Bringing in the Hay
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1969.508.03
- Creator:
- Gerry, Samuel Lancaster (1813-1891)
Artist - Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Genre Painting. Bringing in the Hay, by Samuel Lancaster Gerry (1813-1891), c. 1870. Oil on canvas. Scene of barn interior of oxen pulling load of hay in a hay wagon. Two chickens in the foreground. Center middle ground, figure leading a team of two oxen with a hay wagon. Two children and one man ride on top of hay on wagon. Far right middle ground, a white horse is stabled and a brown cow is stalled with horse tacking hanging above its head; hay loft above. Left middle ground two women; one woman is in a red dress is standing; the other woman in a blue dress is sitting holding a baby. A man holds the door open for the wagon and a rake over his left shoulder; a black and white dog is by his side. Far left middle ground is a grinding stone. Signed lower left: "S. L. Gerry". Gilded gesso over wood frame with reeded edge terminating into corner cartouches with flowers.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-16 W-24 inches
- Provenance:
- Acquired from an unidentified private collection by Vose Galleries, Boston, in November 1955. It was purchased by the Society on December 18, 1956, with funds provided by Margaret H. Jewell in 1957.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, with funds given by Margaret H. Jewell
- Subjects:
- Barns, Farm crops, Farm workers, Farming, Genre paintings, Hay, Hay wagons, Oxen
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