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"Betty the fruit girl"
Title
"Betty the fruit girl" [art original] / D.E. Cronin 1885.
Production
[New York?], [1885]
Physical Description
1 drawing : watercolor ; image 25.6 x 18 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 28 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title written below image. From a quotation in Horace Walpole's letter to George Montagu 23 June 1750: We minced seven chickens ... which Lady Caroline stewed over a lamp ... She had brought Betty, the fruit-girl, with hampers of strawberries and cherries from Rogers's, and made her wait upon us, and then made her sup by us at a little table.
Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image.
Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period.
Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 52.
Bound in as page 220 in volume 2 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Provenance
Borden Sale, American Art Gallery, 17-19 February 1913, lot 812. Rains Galleries, New York, NY, 27 November 1935 (W.D. Breaker sale), lot 688, bought in by Breaker. Purchased from William D. Breaker (through G.A. Baker) by W.S. Lewis, 1939.
Summary
Drawing of a young woman, full-length, turned slightly right, wearing a her hair in a cap; she holds a wicker basket in the crook of each arm, filled with strawberries and cherries, She stands on a wooden platform in front of a fence constructed of tree branches in front of dense hedge of greenery.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 06, 2018
References
David Edward Cronin, "Betty the Fruit Girl". The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
David Edward Cronin, "Betty the Fruit Girl". The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Watercolors - American - 19th century.
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