The Pescatory

1834

Samuel F. B. Morse

Associated Names
Samuel F. B. Morse

Artist, American, 1791 - 1872

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite and red colored pencil on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 11.11 × 14.61 cm (4 3/8 × 5 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.969

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1960; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1962

  • The World of Benjamin West, Allentown Art Museum, Philadelphia, 1962, no. 92

1982

  • Samuel F. B. Morse, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 1982

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. 4, no. 20.

Inscriptions

center in graphite: September 1834; lower center in graphite: The Pescatory; lower right in brown ink: S.F.B. Morse

Wikidata ID

Q64630279

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