FIDDLER AT A PUNCH PARTY
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Fiddler at a Punch Party

Benjamin West Clinedinst (American, 1859–1931)

1895

Medium
Ink on paper
Classification
Figures (representations)
Dimensions
30.7 × 24.1 cm (12 1/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Culture
USA
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Credit line
Gift of F. Elizabeth De Voy
Rights
CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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About this work

Trial proof for illustration. In a colonial kitchen with a punch bowl on a table before an open fire, servants listen to a young man performing on a violin.