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Cloetis

c. 1855

William Brenton Boggs

Artist, American, 1809 - 1875

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Artwork overview

Medium

watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Credit Line

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

sheet: 19.05 × 27.94 cm (7 1/2 × 11 in.)
Accession

2015.19.557

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

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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. 57.

Inscriptions

lower left in brown watercolor: Cloetis WB Brown

Wikidata ID

Q64636615

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