Big Ben
1897 and 1907
Artist, American, 1859 - 1935

Artwork overview
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Medium
gouache and watercolor over charcoal on wove paper mounted on board
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 22.07 × 29.53 cm (8 11/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.504
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
James Parmelee, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1941; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1983
Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983, no. 13
The Grand Tour, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983
1986
American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 47-49, repro
2005
Monet's London: Artists' Reflections on the Thames, 1859-1914, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, 2005, pp. 69, 174, 192, no. 14, repro
2007
Impressionism, Realism, Modernism: Works on Paper from the American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2007
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. 120, no. 804.
Inscriptions
lower right in black watercolor: Childe Hassam / 1907; lower right in charcoal: Childe Hassam 1897
Wikidata ID
Q64539830