The County Election
1854
Artist, American, born England, 1808 - 1897
John Sartain after George Caleb Bingham
Artwork overview
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Medium
hand-colored etching, stipple, line engraving, and mezzotint on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 56.5 x 76 cm (22 1/4 x 29 15/16 in.)
sheet: 60.3 x 81 cm (23 3/4 x 31 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2000.7.36
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel, Washington D.C.; gift to NGA, 2000.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2000
Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.
2016
Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 28.
Inscriptions
across bottom: PAINTED BY G.C. BINGHAM / ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS IN THE YEAR 1854 BY G.C. BINGHAM IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK / ENGRAVED BY JOHN SARTAIN
Wikidata ID
Q75425960