In this prime example of fisher’s early rural pictures, a ferry delivers two wealthy women and their belongings ashore, as a herd of especially handsome cattle rests in the foreground. Boston-based fisher was among the first american artists to specialize in landscape, recalling that “this species of painting being novel in this part of the country, i found it a more lucrative, pleasant and distinguishing branch of the art than portrait painting. ”. Object Type: painting. Date: 1816. Place of creation: America, 19th century. Dimensions: Unframed: 78 x 102.2 cm (30 11/16 x 40 1/4 in.). Medium: oil on panel. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art. Clevelandart 1994.106
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