Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Broad & Cherry Streets Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19102 Accession Number: 1879.8.13
Date:
1842
Notes:
Owner, 1974.
Williams, Hermann Warner, "Mirror to the American Past: a survey of American genre painting, 1750-1900," Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society. 1973.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-2005: 200 Years of Excellence," Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2005, pg. 118.
Summary:
Landscape depicting two boys seated on a riverbank, playing a knife-pitching game in which the weakest thrower uses his teeth to "mumble" or pull out a wooden ped inserted into the ground.