Landscape with a Fountain, c. 1782

Not on View

Medium

graphite with pen and black ink on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 13.97 × 19.05 cm (5 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)

sheet: 20.32 × 34.29 cm (8 × 13 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of J.O. La Gorce)

Accession Number

2015.19.771

Artists / Makers

Benjamin Franklin Bache (artist) American, 1769 - 1798

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in black ink: B Franklin fecit ce / 25 September 1782

Provenance

Mrs. Horace H. F. Jayne (Henrietta M. E. Bache), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mr. L. F. S. Stark, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1952; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1952; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1954: George Washington's World, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 1954

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. 2, no. 9.