$5,100
American School, 19th Century The Old Stone Mill or the Newport Tower, Newport, Rhode Island. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 16 x 18 3/4 in., in a period molded wood frame. Condition: Tears u.l., u.c., u.r., and l.r., craquelure. Note: The Newport stone tower is a round stone tower with arches located at the top of a hill in Touro Park, Newport, Rhode Island. It was thought to have been a 17th century windmill but archeological observations put it several centuries older of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-10-27