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Garden Scene Near Philadelphia
William E. Winnerc. 1840
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Hartford, United States
Well-dressed but not overly dressed, two boys tussle over a hoop, and a girl with a wreath of flowers in her hair sits on the lawn (her silk apron offering a modicum of protection to her dress). The straw “gypsy” hat on the bench was fashionable for girls and young women in the Romantic era.
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Details
- Title: Garden Scene Near Philadelphia
- Creator: William E. Winner
- Date Created: c. 1840
- Location Created: United States
- Physical Dimensions: 17 5/8 x 22 1/2 in.
- Provenance: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1942.444
- Type: Painting
- Original Source: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1942.444
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Creator 1 death date: 1883
- Creator 1 birth date: 1815
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