Overmantel-Rabbit and Landscape

Collection Type

  • Architecture

Date

1877

GUSN

GUSN-2575

Description

Rectangular overmantel painting, landscape with crouching rabbit in profile surrounded by trees and bushes, painted on two joined boards.

Details

Descriptive Terms

paintings (visual works)
overmantels (interior wall components)
oil paint (paint)
panels (wood)
painting (coating)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Oil on Panel
Painted
Rabbit
Overmantel

Inscription

In pencil on board reverse: ""Painted by D. B. Franklin in 10 minutes Sept. 6th 1877 for Charles A. Johnson.""

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Franklin, D. B. (Maker)

Location of Origin

USA, New England?

Dimensions

18 x 38 x 1 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.766

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