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Study for an Archway

Charles Sprague Pearce · 1890/1897

Charles Sprague Pearce: American, 1851 - 1914

UnclassifiedUnited States

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Study for an Archway

1890/1897

pen and brown ink with brown wash and graphite on tan laid paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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pen and brown ink with brown wash and graphite on tan laid paper
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sheet: 8.4 × 14.9 cm (3 5/16 × 5 7/8 in.) mount: 30.2 × 46.1 cm (11 7/8 × 18 1/8 in.)
Collection no.
1995.24.30
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Charles Sprague Pearce. Study for an Archway. Charles Sprague Pearce; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Sprague_Pearce,_Study_for_an_Archway,_1890-1897,_NGA_92096.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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Study for an Archway — Charles Sprague Pearce. 1890/1897.

Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash and graphite on tan laid paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 8.4 × 14.9 cm (3 5/16 × 5 7/8 in.) mount: 30.2 × 46.1 cm (11 7/8 × 18 1/8 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1995.24.30. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Borghi.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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Charles Sprague Pearce. Study for an Archway. Charles Sprague Pearce; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Sprague_Pearce,_Study_for_an_Archway,_1890-1897,_NGA_92096.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.