Wild Eryngium in front of a Landscape

1864

18.7 cm 24.7 cm

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"Here again is a fuller's thistle with its silhouette of threatening prickles, some wild carrots, and grasses shooting up in slender tubes; their outlines strike across a sky of light drifting vapors; the line of the horizon is broken by the glacis [slope] of the fort of Issy,...

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William T. Walters, Baltimore, by purchase (George A. Lucas as agent) 1864 (?) [1], certainly before 1885 [2]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[1] possibly one of seven purchased by Lucas in 1864 (see Randall, Diaries of George A. Lucas, vol. 2, p. 172 and p. 174).[2] Published as a wood engraving in ""Harper's New Monthly Magazine,"" 1885, captioned as ""owned by Mr. W. T. Walters.""
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