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Object Timeline

1953

  • We acquired this object.

2025

  • You found it!

Album, Album of Drawings: Sea, Coastline, Landscapes

This is a Album. It was created by William Trost Richards. It is dated 1860–90 and we acquired it in 1953. Its medium is brush and gouache, brush and watercolor, graphite on cream wove paper, two on blue paper, all laid down. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by National Academy of Design. It is credited Gift of the National Academy of Design from the Mrs. William T. Brewster Bequest.

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 11.7 x 18.9cm (4 5/8 x 7 7/16in.) Cover: 12.5 x 19 cm (4 15/16 x 7 1/2 in.) Sheet: 11.7 x 19.1 cm (4 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.)

It is inscribed

Leaf 1953-179-85 [?] inscribed in graphite at [location?]: 1866

Cite this object as

Album, Album of Drawings: Sea, Coastline, Landscapes; William Trost Richards (American, 1833–1905); USA; brush and gouache, brush and watercolor, graphite on cream wove paper, two on blue paper, all laid down; Sheet: 11.7 x 18.9cm (4 5/8 x 7 7/16in.) Cover: 12.5 x 19 cm (4 15/16 x 7 1/2 in.) Sheet: 11.7 x 19.1 cm (4 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.); Gift of the National Academy of Design from the Mrs. William T. Brewster Bequest; 1953-179-85

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