Old Orchard at Newport
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Many Centennial-era Americans took an interest in the colonial period, which from the distance of 100 years seemed to qualify as an authentic historical past. Undertaking this painting of an old apple orchard in the coastal setting of Newport, Rhode Island, the painter William Trost Richards commented to a friend, "It was a neglected looking place . . . [and] there were suggestions of the early life, struggles and deaths of those who had cleared the wood, fought the Indians, and planted the orchards."
Caption
William Trost Richards (American, 1833–1905). Old Orchard at Newport, 1875. Oil on canvas, 25 × 40 in. (63.5 × 101.6 cm) frame: 33 1/4 × 48 1/4 × 3 in. (84.5 × 122.6 × 7.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Mrs. William T. Brewster through the National Academy of Design, 53.224. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Old Orchard at Newport
Date
1875
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
25 × 40 in. (63.5 × 101.6 cm) frame: 33 1/4 × 48 1/4 × 3 in. (84.5 × 122.6 × 7.6 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "Wm T. Richards. 1875"
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. William T. Brewster through the National Academy of Design
Accession Number
53.224
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