Birthplace of Gilbert Stuart, 1755, 1927

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Medium

carved and inked woodblock

Dimensions

image: 29.53 × 42.39 cm (11 5/8 × 16 11/16 in.)
block: 30.48 × 43.18 × 1.27 cm (12 × 17 × 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Gertrude T.S. Tuttle)

Accession Number

2015.19.2501

Artists / Makers

Macowin Tuttle (artist) American, 1861 - 1935

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Inscription

lower left in block: Birthplace of / Gilbert Stuart / 1755; lower right in block: Macowin Tuttle / Del Sc / 1927; upper left verso in black marker: Birthplace of / Gilbert Stuart. / Saunderstown. Rhode Island. U.S.A. / Portrait Painter of / Washington / Engraved from Nature by / Macowin Tuttle / Del.-Sc. / 1927; center verso of frame in black marker: 68 [circled]

Provenance

the artist, Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania; Gertrude T. S. Tuttle (the artist's wife), Kingston, New York, 1935; Estate of Gertrude T. S. Tuttle, Kingston, New York, 1966; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1969; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Tuttle, Gertrude T.S.

Exhibition History

1931: Wood Gravures by Macowin Tuttle, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1931, no. 14