The Fall of Phaeton

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown and gray ink with gray wash over graphite, corrected in white gouache, on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 31.2 x 22.5 cm (12 5/16 x 8 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.208

Artists / Makers

Thomas Rowlandson (artist) British, 1756 - 1827

Image Use

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Inscription

by the artist lower right in pen and brown ink: T. Rowlandson.; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: [Not deciphered] etc / [Not deciphered]; by later hand, center right verso in graphite circled: 10; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite, circled and crossed out: 107; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 106

Provenance

(Brian Sewell, London, by 1979); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1979; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

McCrindle, Joseph F.
Sewell, Brian

Bibliography

2012: Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 171 (color).