Two unframed 'portraits' of bay horses with docked tails and roached manes, standing haltered and tied to a sky-blue and gray wall, standing on straw bedding; both are painted to face each other and to suggest contiguous space; the name of each horse ('Bobs' and 'Surprise') is inscribed on the respective painting.
landscapes (representations)
paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
Picture
Picture, Animal
Oil on Canvas
Picture, Animal
In black paint in upper left of image: ""SURPRISE"" In black paint in the lowever right of images: ""Jas. G. Parmell(?) In yellow paint, lower left, as if monogramms on a blue blanket: ""WCG"" On verso of both paintings, a black stamp in the center: ""W. URQUHART/ NOTTING HILL GATE/ LONDON W. [illegible]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.1458.1,2
Parmelly, Joseph G. (Maker)
England
10 x 14 x 0.438 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1458.1-2
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