Falls of the Potomac, 1800-1810

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 10 × 14.61 cm (3 15/16 × 5 3/4 in.)

sheet: 15.24 × 20.64 cm (6 × 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg)

Accession Number

2015.19.2795

Artists / Makers

William Russell Birch (artist) American, 1755 - 1834

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Falls of the Potomac

Provenance

Mr. A. Gordon List, Chestertown, Maryland; (C. G. Sloan & Co., Washington, DC); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

C. G. Sloan & Co.
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1982: Washington on the Potomac, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982

1988: Creating the Federal City, 1784-1800: Potomac Fever, The Octagon House, Washington, DC, 1988, p. 43, repro

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. 1, no. 7.

2000: Kelly, James C., and WIlliam M.S. Rasmussen. The Virginia Landscape: A Cultural History. Charlottesville, VA: Howell Press, 2000.