# A Calm Watering Place—Extensive and Boundless Scene with Cattle

- By: Alvan Fisher (American, 1792–1863)
- Date: 1816
- Medium: oil on panel
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Unframed: 78 x 102.2 cm (30 11/16 x 40 1/4 in.)
- Culture: United States
- Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.106)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1994.106/1994.106_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.”