Cows by a Stream
date: label: Date made
content: 1886
name: label: graphic artist
content: Moran, Peter
label: publisher
content: Lindsay, Robert
notes: label: Description
content: This print, <I>On the Neshimaney</I>, which shows cows on a still, warm afternoon standing by a creek, is typical of the views of rural Pennsylvania that were the specialty of Peter Moran. He took pains to make the landscape details appear natural. French artists who depicted the rural landscape, such as Constant Tryon (1810–1865) and Charles Jacque (1813–1894), were important to Moran’s artistic development.
label: Description
content: Somewhat confusingly, Peter Moran exhibited three etchings with the title <I>On the Neshaminey</I> in his one-man show in 1887 and 1888 at Frederick Keppel’s New York gallery. This print is the largest and last of the Neshaminey series. Philadelphia book dealer Robert M. Lindsay commissioned the print from Moran and published it in an edition of 100 in late October 1886.
label: Description
content: This print is signed in the image and in pencil at lower left below the image, “P Moran.” It also has a remarque (small design) of a cow’s head at left in the lower margin. Remarques are of special interest to collectors as they are used on prepublication prints and then removed from the plate before the edition is printed.
label: Description
content: The Neshaminey Creek in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, runs north of Philadelphia through what are today mostly suburban areas, although some farmland does remain. The area shown in the print is probably near either New Britain or Edison. Peter Moran and his family spent some summers in the area.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Country Scenes
label: Subject
content: Animals
label: Subject
content: Landscape, Rural
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.14769
label: catalog number
content: 14769
label: accession number
content: 94830
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: etching
label: Object Type
content: Etching
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 37 cm x 55 cm; 14 9/16 in x 21 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: plate: 43 cm x 61 cm; 16 15/16 in x 24 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 57 cm x 72 cm; 22 7/16 in x 28 3/8 in