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Title: High quality pictures of the early English, Barbizon and Dutch schools
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: John F. Talmage
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ASM Y Til English 17«7—18!il ^ VIEW NEAR THE WEALD OF SUSSEX, I8;30 (Panel)Height, 8% inches; length, 12% inches A road from the foreground passes through a cut between tree-topped rocks, which rise at either side against a pale-blue sky wherelight cirrus and cirro-cumulus clouds float in bright sunshine. In themiddle distance the road makes an abrupt descent, the top of a cov-ered wagon being seen on its way down the farther side. At thecrest are two figures, in sunlight, a man on horseback and a womanwalking beside him, and another man is seated on a rock by the road-side in the foreground. The figures at the crest are looking outover The Weald, a great plain of pasture lands and groves, the treesappearing in sunshine and shadow, with flocks grazing in variousplaces, and in the distance a square tower or steeple rising above thehorizon line. + Signal at the lower right, Patk Nasmyth, 1830. Front Messrs. Lawbje & Company, London. Purchased from M. Kxokdlkk & Co., New York.
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No. 19 LANDSCAPE WITH HOY ANDDONKEY BY JOHN (OLD) CROME No. 19JOHN (OLD) CROME English 176!)—lHfil S&° LANDSCAPE WITH BOY AND DONKEY Height, 16 inches; width, 12% inches Bushy trees at the left rise out of the picture, their rich green foliagepicked out with light spots where the sunshine touches outstandingleaves high up, and their trunks at the base accentuated in strong sun-light. On a bank at the right are two short pollarded willows, andin the shadow of this bank a road, which in the middle distance hasrounded the bank, comes forward into view, crossing a narrow streamby a ford. A boy in a blue coat, with a red necktie, who has justforded the stream on his brown donkey, is riding up a gentle rise intothe foreground, and his dog turns to look at a young woman in red,who has come to the brook with her water jar and stands leaningagainst the single hand-rail of a narrow foot-bridge.

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