William Wilson Corcoran, c. 1880s

Not on View

Medium

pen, brush, and black ink with gouache on wove paper mounted to board

Dimensions

sheet: 25.4 × 15.56 cm (10 × 6 1/8 in.)
board: 35.56 × 26.35 cm (14 × 10 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Accession Number

2015.19.3550

Artists / Makers

Joseph Pennell (artist) American, 1857 - 1926

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left corner in black ink: J Pennell; left edge in graphite by unknown hand: 11[not deciphered]4 - 6 July 23d / K - Reduce to this; lower left in black ink by unknown hand: W. W. Corcoran / From a Photo - / Taken in Paris - about 1840; lower center in graphite by unknown hand: Corcoran Art Gallery; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: Haste!!! - Plated wanted / July 25 without fail / 7/22; center verso in charcoal by unknown hand: not used [vertically]; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 12 x 16; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 24 - 815

Marks and Labels

stamped center verso in purple: PROPERTY OF THE CENTURY CO., / 743 BROADWAY, NEW YORK / NOTORIZED ENGRAVERS / 1. Four fine proofs are required. / 2. No proofs of engravings made for / any publication of THE CENTURY CO. are to / be shown by engravers before publication, / without the consent of the company. / 3. No proofs are to be publicly exhibited / without permission and when exhibited, / credit must be given to the publication / for which they were engraved.

Provenance

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

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. 122, no. 817.