Sweet Briar
c. 1808
Artist, American, 1755 - 1834
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor and graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Philip Alexius de Laszlo)
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Dimensions
sheet: 17.15 × 25.08 cm (6 3/4 × 9 7/8 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.2796
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mr. A. Gordon List, Chestertown, MD; (C.G. Sloan & Company, Washington, DC); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1981
Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981
2006
American Landscape: Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2006
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. 1, no. 5.
1990
O'Malley, Therese. New Perspectives on Charles Wilson Peale. Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh University Press, 1990.
Inscriptions
upper right verso in brown ink: Mr. Breck Place; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: D / 5; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: K7 float in
Wikidata ID
Q64639335