Nile Journey, No. 22
1890
Artist, American, 1836 - 1923

Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal and crayon on gray wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
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Dimensions
sheet: 20.32 × 31.75 cm (8 × 12 1/2 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.869
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
the artist, Rome, Italy; Anita Herriman Vedder (daughter of the artist), Rome, Italy, 1923; American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1954; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1955; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2011
Elihu Vedder: Voyage On the Nile, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, 2011-2012, p. 97, no. 53, repro
Bibliography
1970
Soria, Regina. Elihu Vedder: American Visionary Artist in Rome (1836-1923). Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1970, no. D402.
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. 80, no. 505.
Inscriptions
lower right in charcoal: E. Vedder 90; lower right in graphite: as- Jan 22nd; lower right in blue pencil by unknown hand: 22
Watermarks
CANSON & MONTGOLFIER VIDALON I
Wikidata ID
Q64558528