Collection Highlights
Tontine Coffee House, N.Y.C.
ca. 1797
1907.32
oil on linen, lined to fiberglass
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The Wind Mill
Title
The Wind Mill
Date
ca. 1858
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 24 x 20 1/8 in. ( 61 x 51.1 cm )
frame: 32 1/2 x 28 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (82.6 x 72.4 x 11.4 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, on permanent loan from the New York Public Library
Object Number
S-217
Gallery Label
This painting along with Pan of Milk and the Bargaining was on exhibition at the National Academy of Art.
Bibliography
Harper's Weekly, May 8, 1858, p. 291.
New York Evening Post, May 8, 1858, p. 1.
"Fine Arts," The Albion, Vol. 36, No. 19, May 8, 1858, p. 22.
The Crayon, June 1858, p. 177.
Mann, Maybelle, "Francis William Edmonds: Mammon and Art," The American Art Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, Autumn 1970, pp. 92-106.
Mann, Maybelle, Francis William Edmonds: Mammon and Art, New York University Ph.D. Dissertation, 1972, pp. 151-2.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. II, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 8, 10.
Clarke, H. Nichols B., Francis W. Edmonds, American Master in the Dutch Tradition, Washington, D.C.; Published for Amon Carter Museum by Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988, pp. 126-9.