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Lane Cottage, (painting). Artist:  Weir, Robert Walter, 1803-1889, painter. Title:  Lane Cottage, (painting). Dates:  ca. 1850. Medium:  Oil on wood panel. Dimensions:  17 x 13 7/8 in. (cm. 43.2 x 35.3) Inscription:  unsigned Description:  Summer genre scene with a group of figures seated under a stand of elm trees in foreground. Cottage and outbuilding in background. To the left of the cottage are massive stone gate posts, where now stands the West Point Cemetery. Subject:  Landscape -- New York -- West Point Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- Cottage Figure group Recreation -- Picnic Landscape -- Tree -- Elm Tree Landscape -- Season -- Summer Object Type:  Painting Owner:  United States Department of the Army, United States Military Academy, West Point Museum, West Point, New York 10996 Accession Number: 12,033 Remarks:  Holograph letter pasted to back of painting reads: "To be presented to the Assoc. of Graduates, West Point Academy, in memory of my father, General Robert Anderson who graduated in 1825, and who lived in this house when he was an instructor of Artillery at the Point." References:  West Point Museum, 1996. "Robert Weir: Artist and Teacher of West Point," West Point: Cadet Fine Arts Forum of the United States Corps of Cadets, 1976. Illustration:  "Robert Weir: Artist and Teacher of West Point," West Point: Cadet Fine Arts Forum of the United States Corps of Cadets, 1976, pg. 77. 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 83790034   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 83790034 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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