Ship in a Squall

c. 1840s

Seth Wells Cheney

Artist, American, 1810 - 1856

John Cheney

Artist, American, 1801 - 1885

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams)

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.89 × 26.04 cm (7 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
    plate: 22.86 × 29.53 cm (9 × 11 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 30.48 × 48.1 cm (12 × 18 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.900

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Koehler 1891, no. 19

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1891

  • Koehler, Sylvester Rosa. Catalogue of the Engraved and Lithographed Works of John Cheney and Seth Wells Cheney. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1891: pp. 112-13, no. 19.

Inscriptions

upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: CHENEY

Wikidata ID

Q77013816

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