The Farmer's Home -- Winter

George Henry Durrie|Currier & Ives

1863 · Hand-colored lithograph · Drawings and Prints

Snow-covered farmyard scene with a barn at left; tan three-story farmhouse amidst trees in the central background; and two snow-covered haystacks at right. In central middleground, a man wearing a red jacket and blue pants carries a load of hay on his back as he trudges towards two cows in the open cow shed abutting the barn. At left, chickens stand beneath a large leafless tree. To the right of the central background, a brown horse is depicted behind a fence in front of the house.

Artist

George Henry Durrie|Currier & Ives

Date

1863

Medium

Hand-colored lithograph

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962