The Heart of the Andes
1862
Artist, Scottish, 1805 - 1889
Publisher
Publisher, French, est. 1827 - renamed 1884
Artist After, American, 1826 - 1900
William Forrest, after Frederic Edwin Church
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
hand-colored engraving on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 34.13 × 62.87 cm (13 7/16 × 24 3/4 in.)
sheet: 51.28 × 77.47 cm (20 3/16 × 30 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
2014.136.220
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
private collection; (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1985); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1989; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2016
Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; National Gallery, Prague; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, 2016-2017, no. 42
Inscriptions
text in plate:
Painted by F. E. Church / Engraved by William Forrest / Printed by Day & Son / New York, Published by J. McClure, 1st May, 1862,_London, Day & Son._Paris, Goupil & Co. / The Heart of the Andes.
Wikidata ID
Q77015286