American Country Life – October Afternoon
A rural scene set on a dirt road beside a grand country house (with widow's walk and porches at front and back) surrounded by its garden. At the gate of the country house, in the central foreground beneath a prominent tree, there are two gentlemen hunters: one, holding dead ducks while he cradles his shotgun, stands behind the other, whose extended hands present a dead rabbit and small game birds). The men approach a woman dressed in a pale pink dress; she holds a baby dressed in white, as she stands behind the gate and greets the men. Standing near them, a boy (seen from behind) holds a rifle on his shoulder next to two dogs. On the dirt road in the left foreground, geese walk toward a pond, where three geese swim in the water. In the left background, there is a man on horseback approaching on the dirt road, a corn field with two field hands; beyond is a small town, a distant coastal bay and mountains.
One from a series depicting country landscapes through the four seasons; the others are "May Morning," "Summers Evening" and "Pleasures of Winter."
One from a series depicting country landscapes through the four seasons; the others are "May Morning," "Summers Evening" and "Pleasures of Winter."
Artwork Details
- Title: American Country Life – October Afternoon
- Artist: Frances Flora Bond Palmer (American (born England), Leicester 1812–1876 New York)
- Publisher: Lithographed and published by Nathaniel Currier (American, Roxbury, Massachusetts 1813–1888 New York)
- Date: 1855
- Medium: Two-stone lithograph, hand-colored
- Dimensions: Image: 16 3/4 x 23 7/8 in. (42.5 x 60.6 cm)
Sheet: 19 15/16 x 26 7/16 in. (50.7 x 67.2 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962
- Object Number: 63.550.286
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Multiple artists/makers
1866
Frances Flora Bond Palmer
Nathaniel Currier
1849–56
Frances Flora Bond Palmer
Nathaniel Currier
1849–56
Frances Flora Bond Palmer
Nathaniel Currier
1849
Frances Flora Bond Palmer
Nathaniel Currier
1849–56
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