The Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin, Vol. 18

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Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin, Vol. 18: May 1923EN J amin west is unfortunately best known for his large hrs torical, religious, and allegorical pictures, but at the Memorial Exhibit-ion held a-year and a half ago atthe Art Alliance, Phil-a delphia, it was evident that West's best claim to immortality was through his portraits. Yet that he was also a landscapist is hardly known. Mrs. Charles F. Williams has just lent the Museum alandscape by West of great charm and charac.ter It appears'to be late afternoon or early evening in the picture, that time of day when the sun is low and the shadows are long. From a rift in the clouds' a saffron glow lights up' the sky. It is such a sky as Claude Lorrain loved to paint. Below are distant woods, and nearer at hand a country road, a stream and a great brick arched bridge. At the left, in the foreground, across a ford, sheep are being driven by a 'shepherd. At the right, in the shadow of the bridge, On the bank of the stream, is a picnic party, composed of a man, a woman, two children and a dog. While in the middle of the picture, racing over the bridge, is a coach filled with a gay company, and drawn by four white horses. The coach approaches a tavern half hidden by tall trees, and here it is met by several mounted officers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.