"Betty the fruit girl" [art original] / D.E. Cronin 1885.

Creator:

Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist.

Copyright Date:

[1885]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : watercolor on wove paper ; image 25.6 x 17.9 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 27.4 cm

Notes:

Borden Sale, American Art Gallery, 17-19 February 1913, lot 812. Rains Galleries, New York, NY, 27 November 1935 (W.D. Breaker sale), lot 688, bought in by Breaker. Purchased from William D. Breaker (through G.A. Baker) by W.S. Lewis, 1939.
Bound as page 220 in volume 2 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world : select passages from his letters / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 52.
Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period.
Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image.
Title written below image.

Abstract:

Drawing of a girl or young woman, full-length, turned slightly right; wearing a dress and holding a wicker basket full of fruit (cherries?) in the crook of each arm; standing on a wooden platform in front of a coarse wooden fence constructed of tree branches; lush greenery fills the background.

Topics:

Food vendors.
Fruit.
Girls.

Topics:

Borden, Matthew C. D.--(Matthew Chaloner Durfee),--1842-1912--Ownership.
Brecker, William D.--Ownership.

Language:

English

Genre:

Watercolors--American--19th century.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Paintings & Drawings

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Source Title:

Horace Walpole and his world : select passages from his letters.

Call Number:

Folio 225 884S Copy 2

Orbis Record:

13689968

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr36662

Citation:

David Edward Cronin, "Betty the Fruit Girl". The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

OID:

16704358

PID:

digcoll:4679333