Perlman Teaching Museum - Girl with Lamb

1887
19th century
31 3/4 in. x 25 3/4 in. (80.65 cm x 65.41 cm)

G.S. Truesdell, American, (1850–1899)

Object Type: Paintings

Creation Place: North America, United States

Medium and Support: Oil on canvas

Credit Line: Selden Bacon Estate (Class of 1886)

Accession Number: 1997.265

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19th Century, American*, canvas*, oil (substance)*, oil painting (technique)*, oil paintings (visual works)*, paintings (visual works)*

19th Century
American - Refers to the context of or associated specifically with the modern political entity of the United States of America.
canvas - Closely woven textile made in various weights, usually of flax, hemp, jute, or cotton, used especially for sails, tarpaulins, awnings, upholstery, and as a support for oil painting. Also used for a latticelike mesh made of similar material, used as a needlepoint foundation.
oil (substance) - General term for a wide variety of viscous liquids (or easily liquefiable on warming) that are both combustible and immiscible in water. The character of oils may be mineral (e.g., paraffin), vegetable (e.g., linseed), animal (e.g., fish), essential (e.g., turpentine), or edible (e.g., olive).
oil painting (technique) - The art or practice of producing creative works in oil paint, which is pigment suspended in vegetal drying oils. It dates from at least the Middle Ages in Europe, and was widely adopted for easel painting by the fifteenth century.
oil paintings (visual works) - Creative works in the medium of oil paint.
paintings (visual works) - Unique works in which images are formed primarily by the direct application of pigments suspended in oil, water, egg yolk, molten wax, or other liquid, arranged in masses of color, onto a generally two-dimensional surface.

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