Object Details
Artist
Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Recto: Horizontal view divided into two areas: at top left a standing ox shown obliquely from the right shoulder and at top right another ox shown from the left back standing beside a cart laden with straw (?) as a cover extends from the front toward the middle before a slightly sketched background; at the bottom is a covered and laden cart, shown slightly obliquely from the right back, with tow crouching oxen.
Verso in opposite direction: a distant view of two or three woman washing is visible in the center of the foreground below an elevation with trees, probably cypresses. A wall with a palm tree behind its right corner is visible in the left foreground. Two palms and other trees rise in the middleground. Framing lines at the bottom. Lower half of the paper is empty.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Samuel Colman
Date
January 1873
Accession Number
1939-85-2
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
animals
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
Medium
Recto: Graphite, brush and white gouache on rough brown paper Verso: Graphite on rough brown paper
Dimensions
26.2 x 31.8 cm (10 5/16 x 12 1/2 in.)
place depicted
Rome, Italy
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1939-85-2