Landscape with a River
Thomas Birch, American, 1779 - 1851
1827
Ink wash over charcoal on laid paper (mount lined with Beva film and Japanese tissue)
Sheet: 7 × 9 3/4 in. (17.8 × 24.7 cm)
Sheet: 11 in. (28 cm)
Mount: 8 11/16 in. (22.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisitions Fund
D.999.41
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: T Birch / 1827; inscribed (probably by John Neagle), on mount, bottom center: Sketch by Thomas Birch 1827. / A composition-
Exhibition History
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 20, 41, 64, 251, ill. p. 65, no. 6.
Provenance
The artist; to John Neagle (1796-1865), Philadelphia, 1827; by descent to Neagle's great-granddaughter, Mrs. E. H. Broadhead Jr.; Sotheby's Arcade Auction, New York, New York, "American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture," March 25, 1997, lot 108A; to Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York, New York, 1997; sold to present collection, 1999.
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