Shag Rocks, Nahant, Massachusetts
1860-1865
Artist, American, 1835 - 1900
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite and gray wash on wove paper laid down to board
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Roger H. Plowden, daughter of the artist)
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Dimensions
sheet: 39.05 × 56.52 cm (15 3/8 × 22 1/4 in.)
board: 40.96 × 58.9 cm (16 1/8 × 23 3/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.810
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mrs. Roger H. Plowden (daughter of the artist); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1952; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Memorial Exhibition of William Stanley Haseltine, N.A., National Academy of Design, New York, 1958, no. 132
1963
Progress of An American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963
1977
Changing Prospects: Views of America on Paper from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Tour of Canada), 1977-1979
1979
Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979
1983
Images of the Land: 200 Years of Landscape Painting in the Northeastern United States, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1983
1992
William Stanley Haseltine, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California; Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, 1992-1993
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. 75, no. 471.
1992
Simpson, Marc, et al. Expressions of Place: The Art of Wiliam Stanley Haseltine. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1992: p. 99.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite by unknown hand: 47
Wikidata ID
Q64639650