Politics in an Oyster House, 1851

Not on View

hand-colored lithograph on wove paper

image: 37.15 × 30.16 cm (14 5/8 × 11 7/8 in.)

sheet: 38.26 × 31.12 cm (15 1/16 × 12 1/4 in.)

2015.19.3019

Michele Fanoli (artist) Italian, 1807 - 1876

Richard Caton Woodville (artist after) American, 1825 - 1855

Joseph Lemercier (printer) French, 1803 - 1887

Galerie Goupil & Cie (publisher) French, est. 1827 - renamed 1884

lower left on stone: R C W - 1848 / Dusslf; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: Clarence R. [Shoemaker?] / Dec. 1923.

William Woodville, VIII, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1996; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Woodville VIII, William, Estate of

2013: New Eyes on America: The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland; Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2013, p. 132, no. 21b, repro

2016: Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 29.