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Small rectangular landscape. The scene features a central lake or pond, on which a sailboat glides; A cow grazes on a hill at the right, and houses dot the banks of the far and near shores; The scene is framed by tall trees on raised grassy mounds; the simple molded frame is worked in metal leaf, and the picture is glazed.
landscapes (representations)
pastels (visual works)
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charcoal (plant material)
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1-Written in black pastel or charcoal along the contour of a hill in the lower right of the image is: ""Charity Rowlond [per NFL- Charity Howland] 2- On the frame reverse in the upper left on a white sticker in a black felt tip pen is the number '31.' 3- On the upper center of the wood board backing on masking tape in black marker is the number '31.' 4- On the lower right on the board backing, in pencil: ""Frame sent date/200 [?]/ to 400.""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Howland, Charity (Maker)
Boston, MA, USA
17.625 x 24.25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1260
Massachusetts (United States)
New Hampshire (United States)
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