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Museum purchase, 1973.99.1  Photograph by David Stansbury  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical So…
Two Cows at the Water's Edge
Museum purchase, 1973.99.1 Photograph by David Stansbury © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Two Cows at the Water's Edge

PainterPainted by Edwin Augustus Moore American, 1858 - 1925
Date1888
MediumPainting; oil on canvas in wood frame with gilt gesso decoration
DimensionsStretcher (height x width): 13 5/8 x 18 5/8in. (34.6 x 47.3cm)
Frame (height x width x depth): 18 1/4 x 23 x 1 1/2in. (46.4 x 58.4 x 3.8cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseum purchase
DescriptionTwo cows, one a light brown, the other a darker brown, stand in a stream or body of water. One cow is drinking. A rail fence and trees are in the background.
Object number1973.99.1
MarkingsOn back of frame, on gummed label, typed in black ink, "THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY / 'TWO COWS AT WATER'S EDGE' - oil on canvas / Signed: E. A. Moore / ACC. NO. 1973-99-1"InscribedOn back of canvas, stretcher, and frame, at upper right, in red paint, "1973-99-1"
NotesSubject Note: Edwin Augustus Moore made several drawings of cows in the West End of Hartford during the 1880s. It is possible but by no means certain that the cows in this painting were somewhere in Hartford's West End.
Subject Terms
    On View
    Not on view
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    J. Denison Crocker
    1847-1860
    2004.52.280
    Edwin Augustus Moore
    late 19th-early 20th century
    2004.52.286
    Edwin Augustus Moore
    late 19th-early 20th century
    Bequest of Gail Ripley, 1994.148.2  Photograph by David Stansbury  © 2013 The Connecticut Histo…
    Daniel F. Wentworth
    1895
    2004.52.20
    Edwin Augustus Moore
    1879-1900
    2004.52.437
    Edwin Augustus Moore
    early 20th century
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    Karl Gildemeister
    1850
    Gift of Carl and Ellen Battell Stoeckel, 1896.2.0  Photograph by David Stansbury.  © 2012 Conne…
    John Bunyan Bristol
    1885-1896
    Gift of Miss Helen E. Royce, 1953.73.2  Photograph by David Stansbury  © 2013 The Connecticut H…
    Henrik Hillbom
    before 1925