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Robert W. Weir

When Other Friends Are Round Thee, c. 1853

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Medium

brush and brown ink, wash, and scratchwork on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 22.86 × 16.03 cm (9 × 6 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Rudolph Max Kauffmann)

Accession Number

2015.19.554

Artists / Makers

Robert Walter Weir (artist) American, 1803 - 1889

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Inscription

lower left in brown ink: Rob. W. Weir

Provenance

Rudolf Max Kauffmann; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1947; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Kauffmann, Rudolph Max

Exhibition History

1976: Robert Weir: Artist and Teacher of West Point, Cadet Fine Arts Forum, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 1976, p. 41, no. 81, repro

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. 21-23, no. 9, 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. 6, no. 40.

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