Long Island Farmstead with Red House

Long Island Farmstead with Red House

Watercolor and gouache on beige paper depicting unknown red farmhouse and homestead. Foreground shows the corners of two fields bounded by split rail fences and bordered on both sides by dirt roads, field on the left has three trees and an outbuilding; one-horse cart with single driver travels towards the viewer along the main dirt road. Midground features picket and split rail fenced property; grey, paneled barn on far right on the property; two-and-a-half story red farmhouse with green shutters in center with front porch and story-and-a-half extension on the back, with a second single-story addition; group of chickens outside; privy behind house; picket fenced kitchen garden with several trees to far left, woman in blue dress standing inside behind the fence. Background consists of split rail fenced fields and brushyly painted treeline, sky lightly colored blue; paper oxidization distorts the original light color.

Signed lower right corner, "E.d. Lange. 1874."

2006.13.3

Gift of Mr. Valdemar F. Jacobsen