The Prayer
c. 1860s
Artist, American, 1824 - 1879

Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal and chalk on blue-gray paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)
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Dimensions
sheet: 31.75 × 25.56 cm (12 1/2 × 10 1/16 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.746
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Victor D. Spark, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1951; 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. 39, no. 274.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: WMH [the artist's monogram]
Wikidata ID
Q64638743