The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale's Museum

1822

Charles Willson Peale, Artist Titian Ramsay Peale, Artist

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The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale's Museum

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Title The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale's Museum

Artwork Date 1822

Makers Charles Willson Peale (Artist) American, 1741-1827 Titian Ramsay Peale (Artist) American, 1799-1885

Medium Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions Sheet: 14 inches × 20 3/4 inches (35.6 × 52.7 cm) Framed: 24 3/16 × 30 1/4 × 1 1/16 inches (61.4 × 76.8 × 2.7 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 57.261

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1957-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

American Panorama. Exh. cat., Denver Art Museum. Denver, 1968, p. 7.

Finch, Christopher. American Watercolors. New York, 1986, p. 36.

Hart, S. "The Many and Varied Activities of the Peale Family." Documentary Editing 8, 1 (1986): 8 (fig. 3).

The Peale Family, Three Generations of American Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1967, no. 209, p. 132 (ill.).

Poesch, J.J. "A Precise Viow of Peale's Museum." Antiques 78 (Oct 1960): 343 (ill.).

Smith, R.C. "The Museum of Art in the United States." Art Quarterly 21, 3 (Fall 1958): 298 (ill.).

Stein, R. B. "Charles Willson Peale's Expressive Design: The Artist in His Museum." The Annual of American Studies Prospects 6 (1981): 139-185 (fig. 2).

Sweeney, J.G. Themes in American Painting. Exh. cat., Grand Rapids Art Museum. Grand Rapids, 1977, no. 50, p. 507 (ill.).

Parson, Jennifer Stettler. Flora/Fauna: The Naturalist Impulse in American Art. Old Lyme, Connecticut, 2017, p. 83 (ill.).

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Charles Willson Peale; Titian Ramsay Peale, The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale's Museum, 1822, watercolor over graphite pencil on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund, 57.261.