The New Bonnet
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
25 x 30 1/8 in. (63.5 x 76.5 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Erving Wolf Foundation Gift and Gift of Hanson K. Corning, by exchange, 1975
Accession Number
1975.27.1
Tags
InteriorsVegetablesGirlsMenWomenDogs
About the Artist
Francis William Edmonds · 1806–1863
Francis William Edmonds, born on November 22, 1806, in Hudson, New York, into a prominent Quaker family as the seventh child of storekeeper and public servant Samuel Edmonds and Lydia Worth Edmonds, displayed remarkable artistic talent from youth. After Quaker schooling and farm work, he entered banking in 1823 as a clerk at the Tradesmen's Bank in New York City under his uncle Gorham Worth, a pat...