Tooth Extraction
1840s-1850s
Artist, American, 1813 - 1857

Artwork overview
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Medium
black ink wash over graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Claude J. Ranney, grandson of the artist)
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Dimensions
sheet: 22.23 × 13.65 cm (8 3/4 × 5 3/8 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.976
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Claude J. Ranney (grandson of the artist), Malvern, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1960; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1962
William Ranney, Painter of the Early West, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, 1962-1963, p. 50, no. 125, repro
1963
Progress of An American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963
1991
William Tylee Ranney: East of the Mississippi, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1991-1992, no. 42, 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. 31, no. 218.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: W.T.R.; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 38 [circled]; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 9 [circled] / 3 boys wrestling [crossed out]
Wikidata ID
Q64639762