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Residence of David Twining, by Edward Hicks.
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Beautiful oil on canvas of a complete working farm, with barn and other buildings. The Twinings and young Edward are the right foreground. Farm animals are shown as well as other workers.

Credit: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va.

Residence of David Twining, by Edward Hicks. After Edward Hicks" mother died in 1781, he lived with the Twining family in Bucks County. In the 1840s, he painted four scenes of the Twining farm from his memories of how it appeared in the 1780s.

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