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Jerusalem the Golden, (painting). Artist:  Hovenden, Thomas, 1840-1895, painter. Title:  Jerusalem the Golden, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1891. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm.). Description:  An interior scene depicting a wan female figure seated low in a chair, her arms resting on the arms of the chair, a handkerchief held in her left hand. Seated on the floor beside her is a somber man with his hand raised thoughtfully to his chin. In the background a female figure plays a piano, presumably the hymn "Jerusalem the Golden," written in 1851 by John Mason Neale and set to music in 1853 by Alexander Ewing. Subject:  Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House Figure group Performing Arts -- Music -- Piano State of Being -- Illness Literature -- Neale -- Jerusalem the Golden Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 95.5 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Hovenden, Thomas, Mrs. (Helen Corson), until 1895. Exhibitions:  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Sixty Fourth Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1894-1895, (no. 168). References:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 544. Illustration:  Spassky, Natalie, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pg. 544. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 36120459   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36120459 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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