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Windsor Castle, (painting). Artist:  Gifford, Sanford Robinson, 1823-1880, painter. Title:  Windsor Castle, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1859. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  10 x 20 in. (25.4 x 50.8 cm). Inscription:  (Lower left:) S. R. Gifford signed Description:  View looking across the Thames River at Windsor Castle, which stands out against the hazy morning sky, a brilliant yellow sun rising over the castle's crenelated roofline. In the foreground, figures walk along the bank of the Thames. In the middle ground, tiny houses and industrial smoke stacks represent the village of Windsor located at the foot of the castle. Subject:  Architecture exterior -- Castle -- Windsor Castle Landscape -- England -- Windsor Landscape -- River -- Thames River Landscape -- Time -- Sunrise Landscape -- Time -- Morning Architecture exterior -- Industry Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- House Figure group Recreation -- Leisure -- Strolling Object Type:  Painting Owner:  George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 220 State Street, Springfield, Massachusetts 01103 Accession Number: 1.73.1 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Warren, J. H., ca. 1859. Wells, David Ames, 1862. Springfield City Library Association, Springfield, Massachusetts 1901-1973. Acquired 1973. Remarks:  The painting was transferred from the Springfield City Library Association. References:  George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1977. "Selections from the American Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum," Springfield, MA: Springfield Library and Museums Association, 1999, pg. 76-77. Flower, Dean, and Francis Murphy, "A Catalogue of American Painting, Water Colors and Drawings (to 1923) in the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum," Springfield, MA: George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1976, pg. 45. Illustration:  "Selections from the American Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum," Springfield, MA: Springfield Library and Museums Association, 1999, pg. 76. Flower, Dean, and Francis Murphy, "A Catalogue of American Painting, Water Colors and Drawings (to 1923) in the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum," Springfield, MA: George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1976, pg. 44. 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 22940107   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 22940107 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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