The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1805

Not on View

pen and brown ink with brown wash and blue gouache heightened with white on wove paper mounted to board

image: 22.9 × 32.9 cm (9 × 12 15/16 in.)

sheet: 34.7 × 44.7 cm (13 11/16 × 17 5/8 in.)

1984.3.72

Benjamin West (artist) American, 1738 - 1820

lower left: B. West 1805; lower right mount in brown ink by unknown hand: No7; upper center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 1613 (not deciphered)

lower right verso stamped in black ink: JSH [Julius S. Held]

Central Picture Galleries, New York; Mrs. Jacob M. Kaplan, New York; Julius S. Held, Old Bennington, Vermont; purchased 1984 by NGA.

Held, Julius S., Professor
Kaplan, Jacob M., Mrs.

1973: One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College; Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 1973-1974, no. 42.

1986: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., April 1986.