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The Height of Her Ambition, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Ward, Charles Caleb ca. 1831-1896  Search this
Medium:
Oil on panel
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Harvard University Fogg Museum 32 Quincy Street Cambridge Massachusetts 02138 Accession Number: 2004.192
Date:
1878
Notes:
"American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two: Paintings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, no. 421.
Summary:
Forest scene with a young boy and girl playing on a makeshift seesaw made with a board resting over a fallen log, the boy seated almost on the ground, and the girl on the end that's up in the air. On the ground beneath the girl is an overturned mug of berries, and on the ground beside the boy are school books, a slate, and a lunch pail.
Topic:
Children  Search this
Recreation--Sport & Play  Search this
Landscape--Forest  Search this
Control number:
IAP 20781940
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_415077