Study for "View of Mt. Washington", 1852

Not on View

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 29.53 × 44.45 cm (11 5/8 × 17 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Newington)

Accession Number

2015.19.2622

Artists / Makers

Jasper Francis Cropsey (artist) American, 1823 - 1900

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Mount Washington / from near Bartletts / J.F.C Sept 18th 1852.; upper right in graphite: [not deciphered, crossed out] / all the outlines of Mt. W to be kept up higher / so as to elevate the hill to the left

Marks and Labels

embossed lower right verso: JDH

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Newington (great-granddaughter of the artist), Greenwich, Connecticut; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Newington, John C. Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1977: Changing Prospects: Views of America on Paper from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Tour of Canada), 1977-1979

1979: Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979

1980: Hudson River Drawing, Falmouth Public Library, Massachusetts, 1980-1981

1982: Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982-1983

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. 38, no. 266.