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The image shows a nature scene captured from a ground-level perspective, featuring trees obstructing the horizon and a rustic wooden bridge in the distance. The trees frame the scene, creating light and shadow patterns. The color scheme is primarily sepia tones. A stream flows in the foreground, with a man standing by it holding a basket. Various vegetation lines the water's edge.
National Gallery of Art · Photograph
A Morning by the Brook, near Lake Waramaug, Connecticut
Robert S. Redfield
- Date
- June 10, 1891
- Medium
- platinum print
- Dimensions
- image/sheet: 23.9 × 18.8 cm (9 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.) mount: 34.3 × 28 cm (13 1/2 × 11 in.)
- Classification
- Photograph
- Accession number
- 2023.30.121
- Credit line
- Gift of the UBS Art Collection
- Time span
- 1876 to 1900
- Department
- CPH
Subjects and terms
- American
- platinum print
- Fishing
- Nature
- Man
- Environment
- Connecticut
- landscape
Provenance
The Estate of Robert S. Redfield; (Janet Lehr Fine Arts Gallery, New York); Paine Webber & Co., New York, 15 July 1993; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.
Inscription
lower left embossed: R.S. REDFIELD; possibly by artist, bottom left on mount in black ink underlined: #1451-Near Lake Waramaug, Conn. June 10th 1891; bottom right underlined: "A Morning by the Brook"; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite perpendicular: 10522; upper left circled: 6; bottom right: TR237-84
NGA object ID 226873. 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.