AI Assistant
Notifications
Clear all

art of the surveyor

9 Posts
7 Users
0 Reactions
457 Views
mkennedy
(@mkennedy)
Posts: 683
Member
Topic starter
Translate
English
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Arabic
Hindi
Dutch
Polish
Turkish
Vietnamese
Thai
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Greek
Hebrew
Indonesian
Malay
Ukrainian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Slovak
Slovenian
Serbian
Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian
 

HWMBO has been going to a local auction house, mainly buying art on spec. I finally cleaned out a closet so a bunch of it could be removed from a hallway (they weren't hung up). Anyway, at the last one, he got me this one, "Washington, the surveyor's assistant" by Robert Nisbet. It appears to have been commissioned for Washington's bicentennial in 1932.


 
Posted : January 13, 2019 8:30 pm
loyal
(@loyal)
Posts: 3735
Member
Translate
English
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Arabic
Hindi
Dutch
Polish
Turkish
Vietnamese
Thai
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Greek
Hebrew
Indonesian
Malay
Ukrainian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Slovak
Slovenian
Serbian
Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian
 

Nice!


 
Posted : January 13, 2019 8:42 pm
mike-berry
(@mike-berry)
Posts: 1314
Member
Translate
English
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Arabic
Hindi
Dutch
Polish
Turkish
Vietnamese
Thai
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Greek
Hebrew
Indonesian
Malay
Ukrainian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Slovak
Slovenian
Serbian
Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian
 

Excellent! I suppose that's a rod man on yon cliff across the creek.


 
Posted : January 13, 2019 9:23 pm
nate-the-surveyor
(@nate-the-surveyor)
Posts: 10538
Member
Translate
English
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Arabic
Hindi
Dutch
Polish
Turkish
Vietnamese
Thai
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Greek
Hebrew
Indonesian
Malay
Ukrainian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Slovak
Slovenian
Serbian
Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian
 

That's real nice.

N


 
Posted : January 13, 2019 9:30 pm
dgm-pls
(@dgm-pls)
Posts: 284
Member
Translate
English
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Arabic
Hindi
Dutch
Polish
Turkish
Vietnamese
Thai
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Greek
Hebrew
Indonesian
Malay
Ukrainian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Slovak
Slovenian
Serbian
Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian
 

Very cool piece.?ÿ Definitely belongs on a wall 🙂


 
Posted : January 14, 2019 8:30 am

jered-mcgrath-pls
(@jered-mcgrath-pls)
Posts: 1369
Member
Translate
English
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Arabic
Hindi
Dutch
Polish
Turkish
Vietnamese
Thai
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Greek
Hebrew
Indonesian
Malay
Ukrainian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Slovak
Slovenian
Serbian
Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian
 

Great find. I'd love to have that on my wall. Cheers.


 
Posted : January 14, 2019 11:06 am
mkennedy
(@mkennedy)
Posts: 683
Member
Topic starter
Translate
English
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Arabic
Hindi
Dutch
Polish
Turkish
Vietnamese
Thai
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Greek
Hebrew
Indonesian
Malay
Ukrainian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Slovak
Slovenian
Serbian
Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian
 

@gschrock HWMBO reports that it was less than that.

Oh, now he says if there's interest, he'd be happy to sell it.?ÿ ????

It probably should go to an actual surveyor!?ÿ

Edited: I meant to post this in general chit-chat. I dunno what happened.


 
Posted : January 14, 2019 4:38 pm
seb
 seb
(@seb)
Posts: 376
Member
Translate
English
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Arabic
Hindi
Dutch
Polish
Turkish
Vietnamese
Thai
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Greek
Hebrew
Indonesian
Malay
Ukrainian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Slovak
Slovenian
Serbian
Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian
 

Very nice indeed. At least yours has been coloured (Looks better to me anyway ????)


 
Posted : January 16, 2019 8:30 pm
seb
 seb
(@seb)
Posts: 376
Member
Translate
English
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Arabic
Hindi
Dutch
Polish
Turkish
Vietnamese
Thai
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Greek
Hebrew
Indonesian
Malay
Ukrainian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Slovak
Slovenian
Serbian
Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian
 

Annex have this one too.

https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/detail/6865/Henry-Wolf/Washington-as-Surveyor


 
Posted : January 16, 2019 8:37 pm