House by a Pond, 1819

Not on View

Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 9.37 × 12.86 cm (3 11/16 × 5 1/16 in.)

sheet: 12.7 × 20.96 cm (5 × 8 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.776

Artists / Makers

Bass Otis (artist) American, 1784 - 1861

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center on stone: Bass Otis Lithographie...; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Q nett; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: First Issue of the First American Lithograph; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 2 cl dup / 35-; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: House by Pond

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1952; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Old Print Shop

Exhibition History

1977: American Lithographs from the Corcoran's Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 1

1981: The Artist as Illustrator, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981, no. 23

Bibliography

1819: "Lithography." Analetic Magazine 14, no. 2 (July 1819): p. 67.