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The Sail on the Lake

Dateafter 1867

MediumLithography; printer's ink and watercolor on wove paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (Image height x width): 12 1/4 x 8 7/8in. (31.1 x 22.5cm)
Sheet (Height x width): 17 11/16 x 13 1/2in. (44.9 x 34.3cm)

Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection

DescriptionA man kneels in the foreground, steadying a boat, while a woman steps in or out. The man wears a shirt, trousers, and a straw hat. The woman wears a dress with decorated with ruffles, a yoke, a bow, and a straw hat with a ribbon. Grass and a small bush or tree grow on the shore at the left. Ducks are in the water on the far side of the lake. Mountains are in the background.

Object number1995.182.136

InscribedOn recto, lithographed title beneath image: "THE SAIL ON THE LAKE."
On verso, inscribed in pencil: upper left, "Box 24 / #4"; lower right: "Dwr 15" and new accession number; lower left, old accession number.

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