Design for a Monument in Memory of George B. Doane, c. 1843

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with wash on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 32.39 × 25.24 cm (12 3/4 × 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams)

Accession Number

2015.19.906

Artists / Makers

Alpheus Cary (artist) American, c. 1810 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in black ink: A. CARY DEL.; lower center in black ink: Scale one inch to the Foot.; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: 48 Feb; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: EDC

text on monument in image: Erected / to the memory of / George B. Doane, M.D. / youngest son of the late Isaiah / and Hannah Bartless Doane. / He was born in Boston / December 4, 1793, / Deceased April 13, 1842, / aged 49 years. / As a Son, Brother, Friend / Citizen, Physician, / a model for imitation. / The lament of the poor / pronounced his Eulogy. / "And in the wreck of human joy / May kneeling faith adore thy will."

Provenance

Alice F. Williams, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1958; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Williams, Alice F.

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 5, no. 29.