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Who'll Turn the Grindstone?

c. 1850

William Sidney Mount

(American, 1807–1868)
Culture
America
Medium
graphite
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Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1946.1707
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A vertically oriented graphite drawing depicts two figures with light skin tones. On our left, a man in a wide-brimmed hat and coat gestures firmly while clutching a hatchet. A youth stands opposite him, a hand raised to their forehead in a weary gesture. Sketched with light, delicate lines, they appear beside a circular grindstone. In the lower right, a discarded hat lies crumpled, while faint, loose lines suggest an architectural structure in the background.

Who'll Turn the Grindstone?

c. 1850

William Sidney Mount

(American, 1807–1868)
America

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