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House and Boat at the Shore

c. 1835-1840

Seth Wells Cheney

Associated Names

Seth Wells Cheney

Artist, American, 1810 - 1856

This drawing is a sketch of a coastal scene, looking across a beach. There is a thatched-roof cottage on the left, nestled at the bottom of a slope, with smoke coming from the chimney. A tilted boat is on the shoreline to the right of the cottage. The horizon on the right is low above the flat water, and cliffs rise dramatically in the background on the left. The sky above is blank.

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Artwork overview

Medium

graphite on wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams, 1958)
Dimensions

sheet: 23.81 × 31.91 cm (9 3/8 × 12 9/16 in.)
Accession Number

2015.19.894

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The Cheney Family; Alice F. Williams, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1958; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

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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. 10, no. 65.

Wikidata ID

Q64630846

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