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Young girl getting water at a spring
Thomas Sully (1783 – 1872)
ca. 1840
- Medium
- Brush and oil paint on paperboard
- Classification
- Figures (representations)
- Dimensions
- 33.3 × 26.5 cm (13 1/8 × 10 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- USA
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), 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
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
A young female figure stands next to a well. Her right hand rests on the well box, while water fills her crock. Trees and foliage fill the background.
