Design for an Emblem of the United States of America, c. 1860

Not on View

Medium

brush and black ink with wash over graphite on paperboard

Dimensions

image (irregular): 13.65 × 22.23 cm (5 3/8 × 8 3/4 in.)

sheet: 26.67 × 40.01 cm (10 1/2 × 15 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.754

Artists / Makers

Christian Schussele (artist) American, 1824 - 1879

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in black ink: C.S.; lower right in black wash: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; lower right edge in graphite: C. Schussele; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 6/6vo-2

Provenance

(Victor Spark, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1951; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Spark, Victor D.

Exhibition History

1981: Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981

Bibliography

1965: Michel, Bernard E. "Christian Schussele: Portrayer of America." Moravian Historical Society Transactions 20 (1965): pp. 249-267.

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. 41, no. 287.