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The Mermaid

1881

Frederic Stuart Church

Artist, American, 1842 - 1924

American Art Review

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching in green on laid paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. S.R. Koehler, Boston, Massachusetts)
Dimensions

plate: 21.91 × 14.61 cm (8 5/8 × 5 3/4 in.)
sheet: 27.94 × 19.84 cm (11 × 7 13/16 in.)
Accession

2015.19.2442

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sylvester Rosa Koehler, Boston, Massachusetts; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1881; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1881

Koehler, S.R., ed. The American Art Review 2, no. 4 (February 1881): p. 144.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: THE MERMAID; lower right in plate: E.S. CHURCH.

Wikidata ID

Q77011412

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