# Young girl getting water at a spring

- By: Thomas Sully (1783 – 1872)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/49276)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/f95a624bc5a10c46f02546fe497ce8d5.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.