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Beside a Woodland Pond, Summer

Beside a Woodland Pond, Summer

Maker Richard Redgrave (British, 1804 - 1888)

ClassificationsPAINTINGS

Date1854

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensionscanvas: 26 × 36 in. (66 × 91.4 cm.) frame: 33 × 42 1/2 × 3 in. (83.8 × 108 × 7.6 cm.)

SignedSigned and dated 1854

InscribedSigned and dated 1854

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Frances Crandall Dyke Bequest

Status

Not on view

Label TextThis painting by Richard Redgrave depicts a poacher with a shotgun waiting in the shadows beside a duck pond. A group of women and children walk on a sunlit path in the distance. An unusual subject, its meaning was probably deliberately ambiguous.

Object number2007.2

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