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Abingdon Berkshire

Collection Type

  • Art

GUSN

GUSN-199315

Description

Black and white framed print of a landscape with cows at water. The foreground features several cows drinking from a river. A person on a mule is in the left foreground. People working with a wagon are at the right and a small boat with sails is in the center. The sun occupies the center sky and a bridge and steeple are in the right background. The wood frame is brown with an interior gold trim.

Details

Descriptive Terms

prints (visual works)
ink
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
Print

Inscription

"FROM / J.F. CABOT & BRO. / Guilders and Picture Framers / DEALERS IN / Engravings, Chromos, / Lithographs, Photographs, Passe-par-touts, Brackets, CORD, TASSELS, &c. / 89 Sudbury Street, a few doors from Court, / Joseph F. Cabot, / George G. Cabot / BOSTON. / Particular attention paid to Re-Gilding Old Frames, and / Cleansing and Varnishing Portraits. / Your patronage is respectfully solicited."
(Label on reverse of print.)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

P215

Maker

Cousen, John, 1804-1880 (Engraver)
J. F. Cabot & Brother (Dealer)

Location of Origin

Boston, Massachusetts

Dimensions

14 11/16 x 19 10/16 x 12/16 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.638

Places

Massachusetts (United States)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

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