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Interior - Lady at a Table, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Hewins, Amasa 1795-1855  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Wadsworth Atheneum 600 Main Street Hartford Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1945.210
Date:
1836
Notes:
Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 456.
Summary:
A seated figure of young woman writing a letter at a table. On the left side of the room there is an open window with the drapery pulled back. On the right is a chair with a fringed scarf draped over the back and a guitar propped up against the side.
Topic:
Architecture interior--Domestic--House  Search this
Figure female--Full length  Search this
Recreation--Leisure--Letter Reading & Writing  Search this
Object--Musical Instrument--Guitar  Search this
Control number:
IAP 06910333
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_36021