Distribution of the American Art-Union Prizes, 1848

Not on View

Medium

color lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 40.32 × 52.71 cm (15 7/8 × 20 3/4 in.)

sheet: 54.29 × 67.95 cm (21 3/8 × 26 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2015.19.973

Artists / Makers

Francis D'Avignon (artist) American, born France, 1813 - 1861

Thompkins Harrison Matteson (artist after) American, 1813 - 1884

Saroney & Major (printer) American, 1843 - 1853

Image Use

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Inscription

text at bottom on stone:
T. H. Matteson Del. Drawn on Stone by Davignon. / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1848 by John L. Ridner in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York / Lith. of Sarony & Major 117 Fulton Street. N.Y. / DISTRIBUTION OF THE AMERICAN ART-UNION PRIZES, / AT THE TABERNACLE-BROADWAY, NEW YORK; 24TH DEC. 1847. / Published by John P. Ridner, 297, Broadway, Art-Union Building, New York.

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1960; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Old Print Shop

Exhibition History

1963: Progress of An American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963

1977: American Lithographs from the Corcoran's Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 8

1981: Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981