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Museum purchase, 1959.75.0, Connecticut Historical Society, No known copyright
Connecticut landscape
Museum purchase, 1959.75.0, Connecticut Historical Society, No known copyright

Connecticut landscape

PainterPainted by J. Denison Crocker American, 1823 - 1907
Date1886
MediumPainting; oil on canvas in frame
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 13 1/2 × 17 1/2in. (34.3 × 44.5cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseum purchase
DescriptionLandscape painting depicting a river (possibly the Yantic River or the Shetucket River) scene with a boat, a barn on the right, and hills in the background.
Object number1959.75.0
Inscribed"J.D. Crocker, Norwich"
"1886"
NotesSubject note (from object file): "Although not identified, this landscape may depict the Yantic or Shetucket rivers near Norwich where Crocker was living at the time."
Subject Terms
    On View
    Not on view
    Museum purchase, 2002.32.2. Photograph by David Stansbury. © 2008 The Connecticut Historical So…
    J. Denison Crocker
    1847-1860
    Museum purchase, 1987.232.0, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, No known copyright
    Charles Putnam
    about 1825
    Gift of the Lyman Allyn Museum, 1959.54.5, Connecticut Historical Society, No known copyright
    William Gedney Bunce
    Gift of Newton C. Brainard, 1956.1.1  Photograph by David Stansbury.  © 2009 The Connecticut Hi…
    Charles De Wolf Brownell
    1857
    Museum purchase, 1960.72.1, Connecticut Historical Society, No known copyright
    Frederick Stiles Jewett
    Museum purchase, 1975.32.0  Photograph by David Stansbury.  © 2012 The Connecticut Historical S…
    William Ruthven Wheeler
    1887