Oxcarts, Rome, Italy
date: label: Date
content: January 1873
name: label: Artist
content: Samuel Colman, American, 1832–1920
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: Horizontal view divided into two areas: at top left a standing ox shown obliquely from the right shoulder and at top right another ox shown from the left back standing beside a cart laden with straw (?) as a cover extends from the front toward the middle before a slightly sketched background; at the bottom is a covered and laden cart, shown slightly obliquely from the right back, with tow crouching oxen.
label: Description
content: Verso in opposite direction: a distant view of two or three woman washing is visible in the center of the foreground below an elevation with trees, probably cypresses. A wall with a palm tree behind its right corner is visible in the left foreground. Two palms and other trees rise in the middleground. Framing lines at the bottom. Lower half of the paper is empty.
place: label: place depicted
content: Rome, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Samuel Colman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1939-85-2
objectType: label: Type
content: animals
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Recto: Graphite, brush and white gouache on rough brown paper Verso: Graphite on rough brown paper
label: Dimensions
content: 26.2 x 31.8 cm (10 5/16 x 12 1/2 in.)