The Whirlwind, 1836

Not on View

Medium

engraving in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 12.7 × 8.41 cm (5 × 3 5/16 in.)

sheet: 16.83 × 11.59 cm (6 5/8 × 4 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams)

Accession Number

2015.19.920

Artists / Makers

Edward Gallaudet (artist) American, 1809 - 1847

Thomas Cole (artist after) American, 1801 - 1848

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Painted by Thomas Cole.; lower center in plate: The Whirlwind.; lower right in plate: Engraved by E. Gallaudet.; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: vol II. 350

Provenance

Alice F. Williams, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1958; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Williams, Alice F.

Bibliography

1837: Goodrich, S.G., ed. The Token and Atlantic Souvenir: Christmas and New Year's Present. Boston: Charles Bowen, 1837, p. 65, no. 5.