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American Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Highlights from the Collection, 1710–1890
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Otis and Child, 1834
Joseph H. Davis (American, 1811–1865)
Watercolor, gum arabic, and graphite on off-white wove paper; 10 3/4 x 16 5/8 in. (27.3 x 42.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1972 (1972.263.6)
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
At the Waterfall, ca. 1850
David Claypoole Johnston (American, ca. 1799–1865)
Watercolor, gum arabic, and gouache on off-white wove paper; 8 5/8 x 12 3/4 in. (22 x 32.3 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld, 1978 (1978.512)
Lady in Gray, ca. 1883
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)
Watercolor and gouache on dark brown wove paper; 11 1/4 x 5 in. (28.5 x 12.8 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1906 (06.312)
Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": Three Figures, 1785–86
John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)
Black and red chalk on greenish blue laid paper; 14 3/8 x 23 in. (36.5 x 58.4 cm)
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1960 (60.44.19)
The Fountain, No. 1: the Wounded Indian Slaking his Death-Thirst, 1843
Thomas Cole (American, born England, 1801–1848)
Graphite and white gouache on green wove paper; 7 x 9 3/4 in. (17.7 x 24.8 cm)
Signed at upper right in graphite: T. Cole 43; at lower left in graphite: T. Cole 1843
Gift of Erving Wolf Foundation, 1977 (1977.182.7)
A Rocky Coast, 1877
William Trost Richards (American, 1833–1905)
Watercolor and gouache on brown fibrous wove paper; 23 1/8 x 37 1/8 in. (58.7 x 94.3 cm)
Signed at lower right: Wm T. Richards 1877
Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887 (87.15.6)
Dry Brook, 1888
Jervis McEntee (American, 1828–1891)
Graphite heightened with white gouache on gray wove paper; 10 5/8 x 13 15/16 in. (27.2 x 35.3 cm)
Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1976 (1976.179)