Mexican News
1851
Artist, American, born England, 1819 - 1900
Printer, American, active mid-19th century
Publisher, est. 1838 - closed 1852
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving in black 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: 52.07 × 46.67 cm (20 1/2 × 18 3/8 in.)
plate: 63.5 × 56.52 cm (25 × 22 1/4 in.)
sheet: 72.87 × 60.33 cm (28 11/16 × 23 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.3020
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, pp. 128-129, no. 18b
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: R.C.W. 1848
text at bottom in plate:
Painted by R. C. Woodville / Engraved by Alfred Jones / Printed by J. Dalton. / Mexican News. / Engraved from the Original Picture / American Art-Union. 1851. / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852 by the American Art Union in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.
Wikidata ID
Q77015269