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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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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.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

An Evening Landscape with a Hay Wagon

Myles Birket Foster

Medium
graphite with touches of pen and black ink, heightened with white gouache on wove paper
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.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2009.70.119
Credit line
Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
Time span
1801 to 1825
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Tree
  • Horse
  • Costume
  • Carriage
  • Figures
Provenance

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

Inscription

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

NGA object ID 144272. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.