Mending Nets on the Hudson River, New York
1804
Artist, American, born Scotland, 1765 - 1835
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor over graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, through a gift of Florence Tucker Spaulding)
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Dimensions
image: 29.53 × 44.77 cm (11 5/8 × 17 5/8 in.)
sheet: 30.48 × 45.4 cm (12 × 17 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.2811
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Kennedy Galleries, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1981
Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981
1982
Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982-1983
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. 1, no. 8.
Inscriptions
lower right in black ink: New York March 1804; upper left verso in black ink by unknown hand: Mifo Ledyard / Brooklyn
Wikidata ID
Q64536290