Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 1974.263
Date:
1875
Notes:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Old Print Shop Portfolio, Vol.1, No.8.
Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 132.
Summary:
A sunny winter landscape depicting men, women, and children enjoying an afternoon of skating on Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia. In the late afternoon sun, the skaters and figures standing on the shore, cast long shadows.
