Study For "The Thirsty Drover"
Artist
Francis William Edmonds
(American, 1806 - 1863)
Dateca. 1856
MediumOil on paper; mounted on academy board
DimensionsUnframed: 9 11/16 x 13 7/16 inches (24.61 x 34.13 cm)
Framed: 15 x 19 inches (38.1 x 48.26 cm)
Framed: 15 x 19 inches (38.1 x 48.26 cm)
Credit LineGift of R. Crosby Kemper through the William T. Kemper Foundation, United Missouri Bank Trustee
Object numberF91-57
SignedNone.
InscribedNone.
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DescriptionOutside a thatched cottage (partially visible at far left), a man on horseback receives a pitcher of water from a small girl with pigtails. The well form which the girl has drawn the water as well as her mother at her washing and a younger child fill the left side of the image. Baskets of washing and chickens pecking the ground are seen at center foreground. In the distance is a hilly landscape, and at right, another man on horseback driving cattle his visible.Published ReferencesSotheby’s, New York, 21 April 1978, lot 12; Christie’s, New
York, 5 December 1986, lot 27; H. Nichols B. Clark, Francis W.
Edmonds: American Master in the Dutch Tradition, exh. cat. (Fort
Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1988), 114, 162.
York, 5 December 1986, lot 27; H. Nichols B. Clark, Francis W.
Edmonds: American Master in the Dutch Tradition, exh. cat. (Fort
Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1988), 114, 162.
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