Object Number 1956.0046.029 A

Object Name

Painting

Title

Winter Landscape with a Horse-drawn Sleigh

Category

Paintings

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Charles K. Davis

Creator (Role)

Thomas Birch (Painter)
1779-01/14/1851

Place of Origin

Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1838

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Signature; Lower right, beneath tree trunk; Tho\s Birch 1838

Subjects

Landscape; Genre scene

Materials

Oil paint; Canvas

Techniques

Painted

Dimensions (inches)

19.7 (H) , 29.9 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

50.1 (H) , 76 (W)

Measurement Notes

H at proper right stretcher. W at bottom stretcher.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Richardson, Edgar P. 1986 American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
• Published as cat. no. 62, pp. 120-121.
[Book] 1966 Thomas Birch 1779-1851: Paintings and Drawings.
• For similar winter scenes see pp. 44-46.