Overmantel painting, landscape with houses along the left bank of a river. In the left foreground, is a large yellow house with a small connected outbuilding and fence. In the center is a dead tree with a large bird perched on the top branch. A hound scents a rabbit, which hides behind a rock at the left. On the right, a boat sails on the river, one is moored at the dock in the middle distance. A small town is visible in the far distance on the river bank and a steep hill closes off the right bank. The picture is ebonized with beveled edges.
paintings (visual works)
overmantels (interior wall components)
boards (flat objects)
oil paint (paint)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Aves (class)
trees
Board
Oil
Landscape
Tree
Bird
Overmantel
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
29.5 x 51 x 0.75 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.948
Massachusetts (United States)
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