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Study for Facing the Enemy (from McGuire Scrapbook)

ca. 1845
Not on view
The present work, inscribed by the artist “Facing the Enemy,” is a study for the painting of the same title (Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia) that Edmonds exhibited in New York at the National Academy of Design in 1845. Both the drawing and the painting portray a carpenter in his shop, seated precariously tilted back on a side chair as he contemplates a decanter of spirits on the windowsill before him. The painting was engraved and distributed with a sermonizing circular by the Temperance Society in 1847, in the heat of the mid-nineteenth-century sobriety movement.

Artwork Details

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  • Title: Study for Facing the Enemy (from McGuire Scrapbook)
  • Artist: Francis William Edmonds (American, Hudson, New York 1806–1863 Bronxville, New York)
  • Date: ca. 1845
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Graphite on white wove paper
  • Dimensions: 6 7/8 x 6 5/8 in. (17.5 x 16.8 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926
  • Object Number: 26.216.9
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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Two Studies of a Dog: Lying Down and Three Quarter Rear View Standing (from Sketchbook), Francis William Edmonds American, Graphite on, off-white wove paper, American
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ca. 1838 and after
Two Studies of a Dog: Three Quarter Rear View Standing; Lying Down (from Sketchbook), Francis William Edmonds American, Graphite on off-white wove paper, American
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