The image shows two individuals in an outdoor rural setting. The person in the foreground is a young girl standing on the edge of a wooden platform, reaching upward with both arms extended. Her back-facing features include long hair tied with a ribbon, dressed in a knee-length dress, long sleeves, stockings, and shoes. The platform is placed above a wooden and metal wheel. The second person is a man mostly obscured by surrounding hay, leaning from the upper level, handing a basket of eggs to the girl below. The man wears a broad-brimmed hat and appears in simple work attire. The background…
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Fresh Eggs

Thomas Waterman Wood (American, 1823 - 1903)

1882

Medium
etching
Classification
Print
Dimensions
image: 318 x 229 mm ; sheet: 457 x 375 mm
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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