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There are three figures depicted in a line drawing. The first figure on the left is a man seated on a bed, with his right arm raised. He is shirtless, wearing traditional attire, including a feathered headdress. Next to him is a seated figure facing slightly away, wearing a draped garment. The third figure is lying in the bed, covered with bedding and asleep. The background shows a room with wooden wall panels, a window on the left, and firearms mounted on the right wall.
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There are three figures depicted in a line drawing. The first figure on the left is a man seated on a bed, with his right arm raised. He is shirtless, wearing traditional attire, including a feathered headdress. Next to him is a seated figure facing slightly away, wearing a draped garment. The third figure is lying in the bed, covered with bedding and asleep. The background shows a room with wooden wall panels, a window on the left, and firearms mounted on the right wall.

National Gallery of Art · Print

A Song of Parting to the Boy He Sung

Lumb Stocks, after George Elgar Hicks

Date
1846
Medium
engraving in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 20.32 × 30.48 cm (8 × 12 in.) plate: 26.35 × 36.67 cm (10 3/8 × 14 7/16 in.) sheet: 28.42 × 42.39 cm (11 3/16 × 16 11/16 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.3577
Credit line
Corcoran Collection
Time span
1826 to 1850
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
Gertrude of Wyoming [plate 6]

Subjects and terms

  • figure
  • British
  • engraving
  • Gun
  • Children
  • Interior
  • Bed
  • Indian
  • Male
Provenance

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1882; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Inscription

upper right in plate: 6.; at bottom in plate: G.E. Hicks delt. / L. Stocks, sc. / A song of parting to the boy he sung, / Who slept on Albert's couch, nor heard his friendly tongue. / Art-Union of London, 1846.

Marks

stamped upper left verso in blue ink: Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington. D.C. Jun 12 1882

NGA object ID 183255. 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.