Three Trees: Italy, by Elihu Vedder, 1871
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Three Trees: Italy

Elihu Vedder (American, 1836–1923)

1871

Medium
oil on card on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
Unframed: 22 x 12.7 cm (8 11/16 x 5 in.)
Culture
United States
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting and Sculpture
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. John C. Newington
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

The American painter Elihu Vedder spent almost all of his career after 1866 in Rome, where this small landscape was painted. The inscription shows that it was given as a souvenir to Edmund A. Ward of New York, who had purchased a large painting from the artist.