Mr. Way and Mr. Booth

1862

James Wells Champney

Associated Names
James Wells Champney

Artist, American, 1843 - 1903

The image shows a sketch of two men. One man is standing with his hands in his pockets. He has an angular face, wears a top hat, a coat with tails, a waistcoat, and trousers. The other man is seated on a bench, partially facing the viewer. He has a rounded face with a beard and a mustache, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, a jacket, trousers, and shoes. The background is minimalistic with faint outlines indicating landscape features like hills or fields and some sketchy foliage at the base. Handwritten identifiers are present around the image, likely names and a date.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink over graphite on paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 1959)

  • Dimensions

    image (irregular): 15.56 × 15.24 cm (6 1/8 × 6 in.)
    sheet: 26.51 × 16.83 cm (10 7/16 × 6 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.947

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1959; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

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. 96, no. 626.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Lempster N.H.; lower center in graphite: Mr. Way & Mr. Booth; lower right in graphite: July 1862

Wikidata ID

Q64580739

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