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Spring - Burning Trees, Summer - a Road Accident, Autumn - Crossing the Ford, Winter - Impeded Travellers, (painting)

Catalog Data

Artist:
Harvey, G.  Search this
Type:
Paintings
Exhibition Catalogs
Date:
1876
Notes:
Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 36 (Sale info: TO BE AUCTIONED).
"Four wood scenes of the primitive forest, already engraved for Mr. Harvey's great work, 'American Scenery.'" [P. 6; unlike the same pictures represented in an earlier edition of this catalogue as serials 05080036 through 05080039, in this case the pictures were subsumed into a single entry given in the in the catalogue as: "Spring - burning trees, in a girdled clearing - western scene. Summer - a road accident, thornville, Ohio, through an opening of the forest. Autumn - crossing the ford, gigantic sycamores, Owl Creek, Ohio. Winter - impeded travellers in a pine forest, canada"]
No. 20. 1847. December 15. The American Art-Union: Plan of the Institution, List of its Officers, and Catalogue of Paintings, and other Works of Art, to be seen gratis at their rooms, 497 Broadway, New-York. Snowdon and Prall, Printers, 60 Vesey St., N.Y.
Topic:
Landscape--Season--Spring  Search this
Landscape--Season--Summer  Search this
Landscape--Season--Autumn  Search this
Landscape--Season--Winter  Search this
Landscape--Forest  Search this
Landscape--Ohio  Search this
Control number:
AECI 05060002
Data Source:
Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_aeci_97474