Nº 55
Reading edition
J. Francis Murphy, N.A. American: 1853-
A HILLSIDE PASTURE
Height, 16 inches; length, 22½ inches
From a broad marsh in the foreground, where narrow, irregular pools of water reflect the light of the sky, the ground rises in a gentle slope to a rounded hill in the distance, which is broken by a coppice on the summit, and here and there small trees are scattered over the irregular surface. In the middle distance, on the right, a group of slender birches raise their leafless branches against the sky, which is covered with a mass of gray clouds, through which a shaft of sunlight breaks well up toward the zenith.
Signed at the lower right, J. Francis Murphy, 1901.
Collection of H. Wood Sullivan, New York, 1903.