Painting

Title:

Idle Farm

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1968.030.04

Creator:

Bissell, S.

Date:

1901

Description:

Idle Farm, booklet, watercolor. Cover page includes text, "Idle Farm / Dedicated to the Heaths / S. Bissell / Dec. 1901". Watercolor illustrations on each page, ink text. On the inside it starts with "I 'Twas ONE lonG LinGuRiNG Look We Gave The oLd House - we HaD LearnED To Love. AnD iN ouR HEArTS A TReMuLous WAVE OF DEEP EMoTioN SEEMED TO MoVe. II BUT WHEN THE ROADWAY SHAEP DiD TURN - ITS ROOF AND CHIMMNEYS LOST TO ViEW - A LONGiNG SIEZED US TO RETURN AND START THE HAPPY DAYS ANEW. III WE COULD NOT EASiLY FORGET. THE JOYOUS HOURS THEREiN WE'D SPENT - AROUND WHOSE HEARTH THE FRiENDS WE MET - WHO TO THE GATHERiNG PLEASURE LENT - IV BUT ON WE GO THR'O ViLLAGE STREET - ACROSS WHERE COOLiNG SHADOWS LY - AND WiSH GOODBYE TO ALL WE MEET AND ALL WHO MEET US SAY GOODBYE. V THE LONG RiDE THR'O THE AUTUMN WOOD. WHERE SUNLiGHT ON THE MAPLES GLEAM'D - AND WHERE THE PiNE AND HEMLOCK STOOD. AND WHIT AND YELLOW BiRCHES LEANED. VI ON TOWORD HOME AND YET IT SEEM'D 'TWAS HOME WE THEN WERE LEAViNG. 'TWAS NOT OF OUR REAL HOME WE DREAM'D - OR OF WHAT OUR HEARTS WERE GRiEVING VII BUT THROUGH THE BUSY YEAR THERE DEWLLS IN MEMORY - PICTURES BRiGHT AND WARM - NOR IS THE JOY OF CHRITMAS BELLS. LIKE JOYS WE KNOW AT IDLE FARM -

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-8.15 W-5.35 inches

Credit Line:

Gift of Dorcas and Ruth Woodbury

People:

Bissell, Heath

Subjects:

Farm houses, Farmhouses, Farms