The Adoration of the Shepherds
1805
Artist, American, 1738 - 1820

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash and blue gouache heightened with white on wove paper mounted to board
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 22.9 × 32.9 cm (9 × 12 15/16 in.)
sheet: 34.7 × 44.7 cm (13 11/16 × 17 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1984.3.72
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Central Picture Galleries, New York; Mrs. Jacob M. Kaplan, New York; Julius S. Held, Old Bennington, Vermont; purchased 1984 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1973
One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College; Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 1973-1974, no. 42.
1986
Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., April 1986.
Bibliography
1973
Robinson 1973, no. 42.
Inscriptions
lower left: B. West 1805; lower right mount in brown ink by unknown hand: No7; upper center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 1613 (not deciphered)
Markings
lower right verso stamped in black ink: JSH [Julius S. Held]
Watermarks
Fleur-de-lys in shield, with crown
Wikidata ID
Q64537241