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Battle Charge

1865-1874

Hammat Billings

Artist, American, 1816 - 1874

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Artwork overview

Medium

black ink wash with gouache on wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association)
Dimensions

sheet: 33.97 × 52.23 cm (13 3/8 × 20 9/16 in.)
Accession

2015.19.752

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1951; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

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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. 31, no. 222.

Wikidata ID

Q64572912

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