Fisherman, 1860s

Not on View

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 27.46 × 19.05 cm (10 13/16 × 7 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

Accession Number

2015.19.565

Artists / Makers

Eastman Johnson (artist) American, 1824 - 1906

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite by unknown hand: B; upper verso in graphite by unknown hand: WCA 923; center verso in graphite by unknown hand: Y-P_ 2 fl 10 1/2 in._off; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 18 [circled] / A4227; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: Fisherman 12; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand (upside down): Fisherman / Eastman Johnson

Provenance

(Victor Spark, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Spark, Victor D.

Exhibition History

1972: The Dusseldorf Academy and the Americans, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1972-1973

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. 39, no. 275.