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"Stage coaches pass by the door every day"
Title
"Stage coaches pass by the door every day" [art original] / D.E. Cronin 1885.
Production
[New York?], [1885]
Physical Description
1 drawing : watercolor ; image 17.9 x 26 cm, on sheet 27.4 x 39 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title written below image.
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 288.
Bound in as page 222 in volume 12 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 stagecoach driving to the left down a dirt road, the four horse team in full gallop. Two passengers ride on top of the coach along with the driver and bugler; several passengers inside can be seen through the windows. Trees line the road, with the top of a church or cathedral visible directly behind the coach and the spire of another church barely visible in the distance at the end of the road. A river or stream occupies the forground and enters an arched tunnel that disappears under the road.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 09, 2018
References
David Edward Cronin, "Stage Coaches Pass by the Door Every Day". The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
David Edward Cronin, "Stage Coaches Pass by the Door Every Day". The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Watercolors - American - 19th century.
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