Oil painting on canvas; Midday scene of hunter and dog retreating from pasture enclosing startled long horn cattle. Signed H. Coleman/ Rome, Italy. Molded wooden frame with applied gilt gesso decoration of a border of fleur-de-lis set within painted arches alternating with bells; beaded edge; gadrooning.
oil paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
Picture
Landscape
Landscape
"H. Coleman/ Rome, Italy 1869" (Painted)
From/ Cabot and Bros.,/ Gilders and Picture Framers,/ Dealers in/ Engravings,/ Chromos,/ Lithographs, Photographs, Passe-partouts, Brack / Cord, Tassels, & c./ 89 Sudbury St.; a few doors down from court,/ Joseph F. Cabot/ George G. Cabot/ Boston/ Particular
(Framing label)
Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.) Garden Cottage,
(Artist)
19 x 33 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.968
1869 (dated on front)
Rome (Roma province, Latium, Italy)
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