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Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850

1981

Study for "The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar", John Singleton Copley — John Singleton Copley · Study for "The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar", 1783-1786

Exhibition

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, DC

1981

Documented entries: 26
Participants: 24

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Works & records 26 About Artists 24 Record notes

About this exhibition

Event: Held
Venue & presenter: Corcoran Gallery of ArtWashington, DC, United States
Artwork coverage: Partial exhibition recordThe final exhibition checklist has not been established.

Works & records

Images where available. Every entry keeps its exhibition evidence.

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All documented 26 Recorded as exhibited 26

John Singleton Copley
Study for "The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar"
1783-1786
Joshua Shaw
Landscape with Deer, North Carolina
c. 1820
Albert Newsam
Chon-Ca-Pe
1837
Amos Doolittle
The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony
1814
Nathaniel Currier
Loss of the Steamboat Swallow: While on Her Trip, from Albany to New-York, on Monday Evening April 7th 1845
1845
Rembrandt Peale
Washington
1832-1833
Peter Pelham
Thomas Prince, A. M.
1750
Seth Eastman
View of the North River from the North West Corner of Fort Clinton—West Point
1837
Joseph H. Seymour
His Excellency John Hancock, Esquire
c. 1794
Samuel A. Harris
Emblem of the United States of America
1804
Amos Doolittle
The Prodigal Son Revelling with Harlotsy
1814
John Rubens Smith
View of the Second Falls on the Sawkill River
c. 1840
Daniel Huntington
Rear View of a Skeleton
1848
John Vanderlyn
Study for "The Landing of Columbus"
c. 1842
Benjamin West
Jephthah's Daughter
1780-1810
Enoch G. Gridley
Memorial for George Washington
1800
Christian Schussele
Design for an Emblem of the United States of America
c. 1860
Asher Brown Durand
Study for "Dance on the Battery in Presence of Peter Stuyvesant"
c. 1838
John Hill
Bolling's Dam, Petersburgh, Virginia
1821
Thomas Cole
Study for "The Mountain Ford"
1846
Archibald Robertson
Mending Nets on the Hudson River, New York
1804
Thomas Clarke
Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious George Washington
1801
Francis D'Avignon
Distribution of the American Art-Union Prizes
1848
William Russell Birch
Sweet Briar
c. 1808
John Abbot
Roan Duck
c. 1790
Exhibition entry · Image unavailable
Sharples Family
Allister Hendrick
c. 1809

Artists & people

24 participants

Image not available
Albert Newsam
artist
Image not available
Amos Doolittle
artist
Archibald Robertson
artist
Asher Brown Durand
artist

Exhibition record & evidence

“Recorded as exhibited” follows an object’s exhibition history. “Listed in exhibition” follows a public artwork listing. Exhibition participation, ownership and present display are separate facts.

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Elizabeth Shewell West and Her Son, Raphael — Benjamin West

Benjamin West

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Christian Schussele

artist

Daniel Huntington

artist

Image not available

Enoch G. Gridley

artist

Image not available

Francis D'Avignon

artist

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John Abbot

artist

John Hill

artist

John Rubens Smith

artist

John Singleton Copley

artist

John Vanderlyn

artist

Image not available

Joseph H. Seymour

artist

Joshua Shaw

artist

Peter Pelham

artist

Rembrandt Peale

artist

Image not available

Samuel A. Harris

artist

Seth Eastman

artist

Sharples Family

artist

Thomas Clarke

artist

Thomas Cole

artist

William Russell Birch

artist

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