Politics in an Oyster House
1851
Artist, Italian, 1807 - 1876
Printer, French, 1803 - 1887
Publisher, French, est. 1827 - renamed 1884
Artwork overview
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Medium
hand-colored lithograph on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Estate of William Woodville, VIII)
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Dimensions
image: 37.15 × 30.16 cm (14 5/8 × 11 7/8 in.)
sheet: 38.26 × 31.12 cm (15 1/16 × 12 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.3019
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
William Woodville, VIII, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1996; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2013
New Eyes on America: The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland; Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2013, p. 132, no. 21b, repro
2016
Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 29.
Inscriptions
lower left on stone: R C W - 1848 / Dusslf; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: Clarence R. [Shoemaker?] / Dec. 1923.
Wikidata ID
Q77015267