Birch Boughs, Catskill Mountains, 1856

Not on View

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 36.35 × 27.31 cm (14 5/16 × 10 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.586

Artists / Makers

John William Casilear (artist) American, 1811 - 1893

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Birch boughs; lower right in graphite: Catskill Mountains, July 29th 1856; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: A; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: TL. 6558.A-94; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 18x22

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Old Print Shop

Exhibition History

1979: Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979

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. 11, no. 77.