Remington Catalogue
The Water-Hoist
Alternate Title: Hoisting Water from a Mine
Date: ca. 1889
Medium: gouache and ink on paper, b/w
Catalogue Number: 00519
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 17-3/4 x 13-3/4″ (45.1 x 34.9 cm)
Illustration: Harper’s Weekly (October 19, 1889), p. 841, halftone.
Inscription: ll: Hoisting water from a mine with bull-skins.–; lr: Frederic Remington. Zacetacas. Old Mexico.–
Illustration Inscription: ll: Hoisting water from a mine with bull-skins.–; lr: Frederic Remington./Zacetacas. Old Mexico.–
Provenance: The artist; {Harper’s, New York, New York}; descended through the Cleveland Ferris family, New York, New York; Mrs. David Stoddard, New York, New York; Mike Stoddard, Tampa, Florida; (Sotheby’s, New York, New York, September 14, 1995); present owner
Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Card, Helen L. “Frederic Remington, 1861-1909: Artist Historian of the Old West.” Scrapbooks of Remington illustrations, compiled c. 1944. Vol. 1-5. The Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, New York.
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Sotheby’s. American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. New
York, sale 6736 (September 14, 1995).
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The information presented here is based on the Catalogue Raisonné edited by Peter Hassrick in 2016 and was accurate to the best of our knowledge at that time.