Eighteenth-Century Colonist Preaching to Indians
1852
Artist, American, born Germany, 1816 - 1868
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Rear Admiral E.H.C. Leutze, son of the artist)
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Dimensions
image: 31.12 × 21.59 cm (12 1/4 × 8 1/2 in.)
sheet: 32.7 × 43.34 cm (12 7/8 × 17 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.275
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Rear Admiral Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze (son of the artist), New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1917; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1972
The Dusseldorf Academy and the Americans, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1972-1973
1976
The Hudson on the Rhine, Kuntsmuseum Dusseldorf; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, 1976
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. 34, no. 240.
Inscriptions
lower right in pen and brown ink: E. Leutze / Christmas 1852
Wikidata ID
Q64559339