| Date: | 1898 |
| Medium: | watercolor on a heavily textured paper |
| Size: | sight 7 x 10.5 in. (18 x 27 cm.) |
| Inscription: | "Frederick Schafer. 98.", in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand. A single dot above the "a", elaborate descenders, and the second "f" is capitalized. |
| Verso: | (back is said to be covered) |
| Provenance: | In collection of Edward Everett Horton, Encino, California, by 1970; by descent circa 1970 to private collection, Montana; sold 9 November 2002 for $525 by Willis Henry Auctions, Inc., Dedham, Massachusetts, as lot 147 in "Antiques Auction" to Blue Heron Interiors, Cohasset, Massachusetts; sold November 2002 to private collection, Atlanta, Georgia; sold 5 November 2004 to private collection, Minnesota. {13 Nov 2004 bmajure -at majure.net) |
| Reproductions: | Blue Heron Interiors sale catalog. |
| Description: | A figure stands, poling a punt on a river; a second figure is seated in the punt. On the distant left bank is the silhouette of a house with a chimney, a windmill and two or three ships with sails. Another windmill stands at a farther distance on the right bank; several more are beyond. In the left foreground is a grassy marsh; a boulder and two short snags or poles stand at the edge of the river. Bright spots of paint illuminate windows in the large windmill and the adjacent house, and depict wildflowers on the near bank. The sky is a sunset orange. (From the painting, 25 November 2002.) |
| Identification: | Assigned, descriptive title. |
| In index(es): | Title list, cabins, farmhouses, and similar structures, coastal and marine scenes, foreign scenes, unusual subjects--still life, cityscapes, dated paintings, watercolor and gouache paintings |
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