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Painting, Tobias and the Angel

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1710-1730

GUSN

GUSN-2314

Description

Almost square format; landscape view with river and mountains, prominent clouds, two figures and dog lower right. Beveled band around picture painted black. Simple molded wood frame, c.1920's.

Details

Descriptive Terms

paintings (visual works)
overmantels (interior wall components)
boards (flat objects)
oil paint (paint)
Board
Oil
Overmantel

Inscription

White label with blue pen at lower left backing reverse: Overmantel Panel/Bought at Arsham, near Bath, England/July 1953/Tobias and the Angel/720

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

49 x 45 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.322

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