Man Holding a Book [recto], c. 1815

Not on View

Medium

black ink wash and graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 22.23 × 15.24 cm (8 3/4 × 6 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Ruth Sully Curtis)

Accession Number

2015.19.1570.a

Artists / Makers

Thomas Sully (artist) American, born England, 1783 - 1872

Image Use

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Provenance

Ruth Sully Curtis (the artist's great-granddaughter), Norwood, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Curtis, Ruth Sully

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. 3, no. 19.