New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1860-1870

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and gouache on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 29.85 × 67.63 cm (11 3/4 × 26 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Membership Association Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.615

Artists / Makers

William Allen Wall (artist) American, 1801 - 1885

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in watercolor: W A Wall

Provenance

A. E. Rueff; Mrs. Ruth Sally Curtis, Norwood, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Curtis, Ruth Sully

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: Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979

1983: Images of the Land: 200 Years of Landscape Painting in the Northeastern United States, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 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. 6, no. 38.