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Walter Paris

David Burns's Cottage and the Washington Monument, 1892

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 11.75 × 14.61 cm (4 5/8 × 5 3/4 in.)

sheet: 14.61 × 19.37 cm (5 3/4 × 7 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Accession Number

2015.19.3551

Artists / Makers

Walter Paris (artist) American, 1842 - 1906

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in brown watercolor: W Paris / 1892

Provenance

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1977: Changing Prospects: Views of America on Paper from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Tour of Canada), 1977-1979

1979: American Places, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979-1980

1982: Washington on the Potomac, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, p. 9

1991: City of Magnificent Distances: The Nation's Capital, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1991-1992, p. 5, no. 15

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. 96, no. 623.

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