California Landscape

1888

Henry Chapman Ford

Associated Names
Henry Chapman Ford

Artist, American, 1828 - 1894

The image shows a pastoral scene with a tree in the foreground, a field with scattered trees and shrubs, grazing animals, hills in the background, and a light sky. The tree has intricate branches and the ground is textured. The color scheme is mainly ochre and sepia.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 7.62 × 15.24 cm (3 × 6 in.)
    sheet: 20.16 × 27.94 cm (7 15/16 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.928

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Ford 1961, undescribed

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alice F. Williams, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1958; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: H.C. Ford '88.; lower right in graphite: Henry Chapman Ford

Wikidata ID

Q77013120

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