Study for "The House that Jeff Built"
1863
Artist, American, 1799 - 1865
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Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 9.21 × 9.21 cm (3 5/8 × 3 5/8 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.767
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Doll and Richards, Boston, Massachusetts); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1952; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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
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. 5, no. 31.
Inscriptions
upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 66; lower center verso in graphite (upside down): This is the House that Jeff built
Wikidata ID
Q64540785