Collection Highlights
French press
1812-1819
1943.368
Mahogany, mahogany veneer; yellow poplar, white pine, brass, plaster
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Bargaining (The Christmas Turkey)
Title
Bargaining (The Christmas Turkey)
Date
ca. 1858
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 16 1/2 x 23 3/8 in. ( 41.9 x 59.4 cm )
frame: 25 x 31 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (25 x 31 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, on permanent loan from the New York Public Library
Object Number
S-50
Gallery Label
This painting, in addition to, Pan of Milk and The Wind-Mill were on view at the National Academy of Art.
Bibliography
"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. 7, 10.
Clarke, H. Nichols B., Francis W. Edmonds, American Master in the Dutch Tradition, Washington, D.C.; Published for Amon Carter