Landscape Winter Oil Painting with Unusual Well Sweep

Are you ready for winter which is certainly a welcome relief from the heat and humidity we have experienced during these last summer months…whew!…..then this next cool and tranquil offering may be of interest to you! This beautiful, winter landscape scene painting done in oil on academy board dates from the late 1800’s to the early part of the 20th century and is really magnificent! I purchased this piece because of the very unusual “well sweep” feature that I have not seen in any other paintings to date. I would like to share some history with you regarding this ingenuous device: “A well sweep was utilized to draw water from a well without ropes or pulleys. It appeared throughout North Carolina on nineteenth-century farms and plantations; both subsistence farmers and their wealthier neighbors used them. The only materials needed to construct a well sweep were wooden poles, which could be obtained locally. A vertical post was mounted by the well hole. The post held a horizontal pol