Portrait of a man with a hymn book; possibly Mr. Cook

Field, Erastus Salisbury (1805-1900)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1838
Height:
89.1 cm  (35 1/16 in.)
Width:
74.0 cm  (29 1/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch[Museum inv. no.: 1978.80.6]

Description

Man holding an open hymn tune book.

Musical works

Old Hundredlegible music notation
hymn tune originating in the 16th century

Eastportlegible music notation
19th century hymn tune probably named for Eastport, Maine

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1992) 126-129.

RIdIM record id

152