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Source Description
Hennessy trained at the National Academy of Design in New York. His paintings and drawings were often marked by a sense of pathos. In this scene, an impoverished mother and her son, obviously insufficiently protected from the cold, trudge along a snow-strewn street.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
12271
label
Woman and Boy in the Snow
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
12271
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Woman and Boy in the Snow
description
Hennessy trained at the National Academy of Design in New York. His paintings and drawings were often marked by a sense of pathos. In this scene, an impoverished mother and her son, obviously insufficiently protected from the cold, trudge along a snow-strewn street.
provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1859
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
drawings (visual works)
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1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
14
height
11
dimensionsRaw
5 1/2 x 4 5/16 in. (14 x 11 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signed and dated] lower left: W.J. Hennessy 1859
med
pencil on paper heightened with white
creator_ids
2595
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
2180
Single page context
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1
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0
type
photo
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