Arch Rock, Kagosima Bay, Japan

1855

William Brenton Boggs

Artist, American, 1809 - 1875

William Brenton Boggs

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite with gouache on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Edward M. East)

  • Dimensions

    image (irregular): 17.15 × 23.5 cm (6 3/4 × 9 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 38.42 × 24.13 cm (15 1/8 × 9 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.555


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. Edward M. East, Boston, Massachusetts; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1979

  • Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979

1980

  • Hudson River Drawing, Falmouth Public Library, Massachusetts, 1980-1981

2006

  • American Landscape: Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2006

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. 8, no. 55.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: WBB.; lower right in graphite: Arch Rock / Kagosima Bay / Japan, Jany, 1855/; center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 70

Wikidata ID

Q64636612


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