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Maker(s):Tryon, Dwight William
Culture:American (1849 - 1925)
Title:Boiling Clothes
Date Made:n.d.
Type:Drawing
Materials:charcoal on paper
Place Made:France; Monchaux
Measurements:sheet: 8 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.; 20.955 x 33.9725 cm
Narrative Inscription:  inscribed signed and dated at right: Sketch made at Monchaux, 1880 D.W. Tryon. peasants cottage where we lived the summer of 1880
Accession Number:  SC 1916.9.1
Credit Line:Gift of Dwight W. Tryon
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
interior, woman with stick stirring boiling clothes in large black pot over fire left of center, niche in upper right wall, barrels near wall at right, implements leaning against wall at left; interior; work; costume/uniform

Tags:
interiors; women; labor; domestic space

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