"Tis but Fancy's Sketch"

1850s

Robert Walter Weir

Artist, American, 1803 - 1889

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    John Davis Hatch Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 26.9 × 20.9 cm (10 9/16 × 8 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1979.20.126

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Davis Hatch [1907-1996], by 1976; gift 1979 to the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1976

  • Hatch, John Davis. 100 American Drawings: Loan Exhibition from the Collection of John Davis Hatch. London: Heim Gallery, 1976, no. 54.

Inscriptions

lower left in pen and brown ink: "Tis but Fancy's sketch"; lower right in pen and brown ink: by Robt Weir

Watermarks

J WHATMAN / 1822

Wikidata ID

Q64629281

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