Mexican News, 1851

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Medium

engraving in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 52.39 × 46.99 cm (20 5/8 × 18 1/2 in.)

sheet: 63.82 × 53.98 cm (25 1/8 × 21 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Donald Webster)

Accession Number

2015.19.1049

Artists / Makers

Alfred Jones (artist) American, born England, 1819 - 1900

Richard Caton Woodville (artist after) American, 1825 - 1855

American Art-Union (publisher) est. 1838 - closed 1852

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: R.C.W. 1848

text at bottom in plate:
Painted by R. C. Woodville / Engraved by Alfred Jones / Mexican News. / Engraved from the Original Picture / American Art-Union. 1851. / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852 by the American Art Union in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

Provenance

Donald Webster, Chevy Chase, Maryland; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1966; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Webster, Donald

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

2016: Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; National Gallery, Prague; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, 2016-2017, no. 30