The Path to the Shore
1879
Artist, American, 1840 - 1905
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching in black on laid paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. S.R. Koehler, Boston, Massachusetts)
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Dimensions
plate: 11.27 × 20.16 cm (4 7/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
sheet: 26.83 × 38.58 cm (10 9/16 × 15 3/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.2452
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Catalogue Raisonné
Wright 2002, no. 19
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
1879
Koehler, S.R., ed. The American Art Review 1, no. 1 (November 1879): frontispiece.
2002
Wright, David G. R. Swain Gifford: A Catalogue of Etchings, 1865-1891. Massachusetts: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2002, pp. 64-66, no. 19.
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: R Swain Gifford - 79
Wikidata ID
Q77013139