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Seth Wells Cheney and John Cheney after Washington Allston

Seth Wells Cheney: American, 1810 - 1856

John Cheney: American, 1801 - 1885

Washington Allston: American, 1779 - 1843

Ship in a Squall
c. 1840s: engraving in black on wove paper; image: 18.89 × 26.04 cm (7 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
plate: 22.86 × 29.53 cm (9 × 11 5/8 in.); sheet: 30.48 × 48.1 cm (12 × 18 15/16 in.); Koehler 1891, no. 19; Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams); 2015.19.900; Not on View

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Inscription

upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: CHENEY

Provenance

The Cheney Family; Alice F. Williams, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1958; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Bibliography

1891: Koehler, Sylvester Rosa. Catalogue of the Engraved and Lithographed Works of John Cheney and Seth Wells Cheney. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1891: pp. 112-13, no. 19.