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Driving a Bargain
John Adams Whipple, Alexander Hessler1854
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Portrait of a blacksmith and a young boy standing in front of an anvil on a log, as each hold one end of a horseshoe. The man holds the handle of a blacksmith's hammer, also called a cross pein hammer, which he rests on the anvil. A large mallet lies on the log next to the anvil, and a pair of tongs straddle the anvil's nose.
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Details
- Title: Driving a Bargain
- Creator: J.A. Whipple, Alexander Hesler
- Date Created: 1854
- Location Created: Boston, Massachusetts, United States; New York, New York, United States
- Physical Dimensions: 19.9 × 14.7 cm (7 13/16 × 5 13/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Salted paper print
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 84.XB.763.9.9
- Culture: American
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: J.A. Whipple (American, 1822 - 1891) After Alexander Hesler (American, born Canada, 1823 - 1895)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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