Study for "The House that Jeff Built", 1863

Not on View

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 9.21 × 9.21 cm (3 5/8 × 3 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

2015.19.767

Artists / Makers

David Claypoole Johnston (artist) American, 1799 - 1865

Image Use

upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 66; lower center verso in graphite (upside down): This is the House that Jeff built

(Doll and Richards, Boston, Massachusetts); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1952; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Doll and Richards

1982: Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1981-1983, pp. 48-49, no. 11, repro

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. 5, no. 31.