About the Artwork
Washington's Monument, Baltimore
1835
James Smillie (Artist) American, 1807-1885 Thomas Kelah Wharton (Artist) American, 1814-1862
Steel engraving printed in black on wove paper
plate and sheet: 9 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. 24.7 x 32.3 cm
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund
F72.283.137
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
In plate, lower left: Drawn by T.K. Wharton.; lower center: Steel Plate; lower right: Engraved by James Smillie.; center bottom margin: Washington's Monument, Baltimore. / DRAWN & ENGRAVED FOR THE NEW YORK MIRROR, 1835. / Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1835, by George P. Morris in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the South District of New York.; bottom right: Printed by A. King.
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Kennedy Gallery and Edith Cole Silberstein
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James Smillie; after Thomas Kelah Wharton, Washington's Monument, Baltimore, 1835, Steel engraving printed in black on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, F72.283.137.
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