Falls of the Potomac
1800-1810
Artist, American, 1755 - 1834
William Russell Birch
Attributed to
West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G22
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor and graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg)
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Dimensions
image: 10 × 14.61 cm (3 15/16 × 5 3/4 in.)
sheet: 15.24 × 20.64 cm (6 × 8 1/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.2795
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mr. A. Gordon List, Chestertown, Maryland; (C. G. Sloan & Co., Washington, DC); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1982
Washington on the Potomac, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982
1988
Creating the Federal City, 1784-1800: Potomac Fever, The Octagon House, Washington, DC, 1988, p. 43, repro
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. 1, no. 7.
2000
Kelly, James C., and WIlliam M.S. Rasmussen. The Virginia Landscape: A Cultural History. Charlottesville, VA: Howell Press, 2000.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: Falls of the Potomac
Wikidata ID
Q64639341