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Walter Shirlaw

Study for "Toning the Bell", c. 1874

Not on View

Medium

brush and brown ink wash over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 33.66 × 26.35 cm (13 1/4 × 10 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Miss Florence Heywood)

Accession Number

2015.19.1569

Artists / Makers

Walter Shirlaw (artist) American, 1838 - 1909

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: WS; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: #40

Provenance

Florence Heywood, Paris, France; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Heywood, Florence

Exhibition History

1975: American Art in the Making: Preparatory Studies for Masterpieces of American Painting, 1800-1900, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1975-1977, p. 58, fig. 82, repro

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 84, no. 529.

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