American Scene

c. 1832/1835

Thomas Leeson Rowbotham

Artist, British, 1782 - 1853

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gray wash with scratching out on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 20 × 27.9 cm (7 7/8 × 11 in.)
    mount: 25.7 × 34.4 cm (10 1/8 × 13 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.167.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Philip William Skynner Miles, Leigh Court (near Bristol), part of an album that bore his initials on the front cover. R. E. Summerfield; (his sale, Christie's London, 20 March 1990, no. 62); private collection; (sale, Woolley & Wallis, 12 September 2017, no. 152); (Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Ltd., London); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2018

  • British Drawings and Watercolors. Guy Peppiatt Fine Art, London, 2018, no. 45 (color).

2023

  • Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Inscriptions

in pen and brown ink, lower center verso: American Scene / 1.0.0. Rowbotham

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