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Title: High quality pictures of the early English, Barbizon and Dutch schools
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: John F. Talmage
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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No. 19 LANDSCAPE WITH HOY ANDDONKEY BY JOHN (OLD) CROME No. 19JOHN (OLD) CROME English 176!)—lHfil S&° LANDSCAPE WITH BOY AND DONKEY Height, 16 inches; width, 12% inches Bushy trees at the left rise out of the picture, their rich green foliagepicked out with light spots where the sunshine touches outstandingleaves high up, and their trunks at the base accentuated in strong sun-light. On a bank at the right are two short pollarded willows, andin the shadow of this bank a road, which in the middle distance hasrounded the bank, comes forward into view, crossing a narrow streamby a ford. A boy in a blue coat, with a red necktie, who has justforded the stream on his brown donkey, is riding up a gentle rise intothe foreground, and his dog turns to look at a young woman in red,who has come to the brook with her water jar and stands leaningagainst the single hand-rail of a narrow foot-bridge.
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No. 20FLUELEN, LAKE OF LUCERNE BY JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAMTURNER, R.A. No. 20JOSEPH MALLOKD WILLIAM TUKNER, KA English 1775—1851FLUELEN, LAKE OF LUCERNE (Water Color. Painted about 1840)Height, 11% inches; length, 18% inches The mountains tower to right, to left and in the background, theirstupendous flanks full of color. On the right they are green andblue as well as red and yellow, and on the left, which is in higher light,a reddish-yellow predominates, with suggestions of a green tinge. Inthe distance they appear in a luminous haze of subdued but bewilder-ing iridescence. In the valley of the middle distance the buildings ofthe town are scarcely less colorful, grouped about the shore of thelake, on which in the foreground are seen many boats and rafts withfigures bright in the sunshine, while the water is filled with dazzlingreflections of baffling hues. One of the noted drawings made for the father of John Ruskin. Formerlyin the collection of Abraham Haworth, Esq., England. Purcha

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