Overmantel: Landscape with Wayside Crosses
This overmantel was painted as an integral part of the woodwork interior for a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, farmhouse in about 1761. (See 34.27.10 for further information on the woodwork.) The subject of this overmantel painting was taken from an engraving which appeared in William Salmon's "Polygraphice or the Arts of Drawing, Engraving . . .” (London, 1685), one of the first books of artistic instruction used in America.
Artwork Details
- Title:Overmantel: Landscape with Wayside Crosses
- Date:ca. 1761
- Geography:Made in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Culture:American
- Medium:Painted wood
- Dimensions:9 ft. 2 in. × 10 ft. (9.8 × 279.4 cm)
- Credit Line:Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1934
- Object Number:34.27.1
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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