Design for an Emblem of the State of South Carolina, c. 1860

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with wash on heavy wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 23.18 × 33.97 cm (9 1/8 × 13 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.755

Artists / Makers

Christian Schussele (artist) American, 1824 - 1879

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: C. Schussele; upper left in graphite: Original / sketch for / later steel engraving; lower right in black ink by unknown hand: Baedlonslaudt Co: / Phila:; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 61650-2

Provenance

(Victor Spark, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1951; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Spark, Victor D.

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. 41, no. 288.