Painting
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1945.031.04
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1810
- Description:
- Landscape painting, untitled, unknown artist, c. 1810. Watercolor on paper. Pastoral scene with a one-room cottage to right of center; a woman in the doorway at front, holding a cup; a ladder-back chair in one window; a single curtain and a cat in end window; a partly opened door at upper window. Cow drinking from tub at front left corner of house. Pail on ground to right of doorway. A fruit tree at each end of house. Many varieties of plants in front of cottage on hilly lawn. Stream running across scene in foreground. Small boy at right wading in stream with miniature sailing vessel on string. Young man and woman on shore at left of center. Tree and small girl with basket of berries to their left. Man's hat on ground at center near water's edge. Clothing in style popular 1800-1820. Partial watermark: "ED MEADS & [PINE]" Pencil inscription on the mat: "Outdoor family scene". Mounted on stiff paper having 1" borders; matted but not framed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-13.2 W-16.1 inches
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mary Bell Willson
- People:
- Willson, Mary Bell (1876-1946)
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