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Oil on canvas; New England landscape view of a marsh; Dark foreground with flying birds; ocean and sailboats in distance with pink and blue billowing clouds. In gilt gesso frame with leaf garland outer border and inner acanthus leaf border and beaded moldings. Signed lower left with monogram "SW" in a circle.
landscapes (representations)
canvas
oil paint (paint)
Painting
"Size____/SOLD BY/FROST & ADAMS,/NO. 37 CORNHILL, BOSTON" (printed)
"MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS/818CB/BOSTON, MASS." (printed)
"H 1070" (Painted)
Original To Sarah Orne Jewett House (South Berwick, Me.),
Whitman, Sarah Wyman, 1842-1904 (Artist)
21 x 25 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Elizabeth L.P. Richardson
1966.2160
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