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title: Stony Ground
author: Brooklyn Museum
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/13132/stony-ground/
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license: Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
updated: 1970-01-01
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# Stony Ground
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## Image File
[](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/13132.jpg)
## Image Caption
"Stony Ground" is an 1884 CE gouache painting by Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911 CE) which depicts a domestic scene from 17th or 18th Century CE America. A [puritan](https://www.worldhistory.org/Puritans/) pastor recites a sermon before a gathering of people in a kitchen. (Brooklyn Museum)
## Cite This Work
### APA
Museum, B. (2020, November 19). Stony Ground. *World History Encyclopedia*.
### Chicago
Museum, Brooklyn. "Stony Ground." *World History Encyclopedia*, November 19, 2020. .
### MLA
Museum, Brooklyn. "Stony Ground." *World History Encyclopedia*, 19 Nov 2020, .
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Copyright © 2004–2015 the Brooklyn Museum. Some rights reserved. Use of text and images in which Brooklyn Museum holds the copyright is permitted, with attribution, under the terms and conditions of a Creative Commons License. [Original image](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/96065) by [**Brooklyn Museum**](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/96065). Submitted by [Arienne King](https://www.worldhistory.org/user/ava.spartan.117/ "User Page: Arienne King"), published on 19 November 2020. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: [Creative Commons Attribution](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0deed.en). This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. When republishing on the web a hyperlink back to the original content source URL must be included. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.