Jerusalem the golden

Hovenden, Thomas (1840-1895)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1892–1894
Height:
76.2 cm  (30 in.)
Width:
191.5 cm  (75 3/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 95.5]Gift of Helen Hovenden in memory of her husband, Thomas. American Paintings and Sculpture.

Description

In the centre foreground a pale, reclining woman; next to her on her right is a young man. Onthe right background a woman playing fortepiano or chamber organ (depiction not clear), probably the hymn "Jerusalem the Golden" by John Mason Neale (text) and Alexander Ewing (music).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Pianoforte [2299] (May be fortepiano or chamber organ (unclear))
Chamber organ [5769] (May be fortepiano or chamber organ (unclear))

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Spassky, Natalie, and Kathleen Luhrs. American paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, A catalogue of works by artists born between 1816 and 1845 (New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press, 1985) 539–540, 544–545. ISBN 0870992449.

RIdIM record id

3193