Mexican News, 1851

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Medium

engraving in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 52.07 × 46.67 cm (20 1/2 × 18 3/8 in.)
plate: 63.5 × 56.52 cm (25 × 22 1/4 in.)

sheet: 72.87 × 60.33 cm (28 11/16 × 23 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Estate of William Woodville, VIII)

Accession Number

2015.19.3020

Artists / Makers

Alfred Jones (artist) American, born England, 1819 - 1900

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

J. Dalton (printer) American, active mid-19th century

American Art-Union (publisher) est. 1838 - closed 1852

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: R.C.W. 1848

text at bottom in plate:
Painted by R. C. Woodville / Engraved by Alfred Jones / Printed by J. Dalton. / Mexican News. / Engraved from the Original Picture / American Art-Union. 1851. / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852 by the American Art Union in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Woodville VIII, William, Estate of

Exhibition History

2013: New Eyes on America: The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland; Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2013, pp. 128-129, no. 18b