Three girls in a park

Yewell, George Henry (1830-1923)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1861

Height:

27.0 cm  (10 5/8 in.)

Width:

21.5 cm  (8 7/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

This woodland park scene includes three girls, one reading a book, sitting on a stone staircase; a hat, shawls(?) and a guitar (perhaps with a shoulder strap) lie on the ground in front of them.

Iconclass

43B2
open air recreation
48CC7324
cithern, mandolin, guitar, balalaika - CC - out of doors

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Anderson, Virginia and Kimberly Orcutt, eds. American paintings at Harvard, volume two: Paintings, drawings, pastels and stained glass by artists born 1826-1856 (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT: Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press, 2008) 457, cat. 481.

RIdIM record id

5632