Landscape with a Fountain
c. 1782
Artist, American, 1769 - 1798
attributed to Benjamin Franklin Bache
Attribution
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite with pen and black ink on laid paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of J.O. La Gorce)
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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.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.771
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
Inscriptions
lower right in black ink: B Franklin fecit ce / 25 September 1782
Watermarks
[crest] C & I HONIG
Wikidata ID
Q64536775