An Evening Landscape with a Hay Wagon

Myles Birket Foster

Associated Names
Myles Birket Foster

Artist, British, 1825 - 1899

The image shows a farm vehicle loaded with hay, pulled by horses with figures seated on top and walking alongside. The landscape is lush with trees and shrubs, featuring a high horizon line and distant buildings or fields. The color palette is predominantly grey.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite with touches of pen and black ink, heightened with white gouache on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 8.4 x 11.3 cm (3 5/16 x 4 7/16 in.)
    mount: 12.5 x 12.5 cm (4 15/16 x 4 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2009.70.119

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 169 (color).

Inscriptions

signed by the artist in monogram at lower left in graphite: BF; verso, by later hand, center of the mount, in black crayon: -7901-; by later hand, upper center mount, in graphite: Birket Foster

Wikidata ID

Q64617990

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