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Painted panel, possibly a fireboard; view of a sailor boy holding a parsol and a girl holding up her skirts by the shore; a large bird is overhead; a fully rigged ship is offshore; the foliage is a dull, brownish green.
pictures (two-dimensional representations)
oil paint (paint)
panels (wood)
pine (wood)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
conditions and effects: landscape
Pine
Oil on Panel
Picture
Written on a jelly label with a fountain pen on the lower left of the board reverse is ""Fireboard from Warren R.I."" (the top is split off).
Used At Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
20 x 37 x 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1068
Rhode Island (United States)
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