Feeding the Ducks

about Feeding the Ducks

In this complex print, Robert Anderson depicts a mother and child in contemporary dress and shown in color, before a man and a woman wearing eighteenth-century clothing sitting in an old-fashioned gondola.

Staring at the viewer, the mother and child sport dark outfits and short haircuts that emphasize their light blond hair and blue eyes, sitting on the edge of the water as they feed the ducks. Behind them, a man dressed in breeches and a fitted jacket with a tricorn hat accompanies a woman wearing a gown with a fitted bodice and a feathery parasol.