Museum Object Number1977.0100 |
Print (Steel engraving)
THE CARD PLAYERS.
Prints and Maps
Museum purchase
Richard Caton Woodville (Painter)
Charles Kennedy Burt (Engraver)
J. Dalton (Printer)
American Art Union (Publisher)
References: For the most recent book on Woodville's life and work, see Justin P. Wolff, Richard Caton Woodville: American Painter, Artful Dodger (Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2002).At the time of its dissolution in 1852, the AAU held an auction to sell off the paintings and sculptures in their collection. Those works that did not sell, along with the records of the organization and other assorted materials they kept in their possession were given to the New-York Historical Society in 1863. Today these materials comprise The American Art-Union Print Collection, 1840-1851 at the NYHS. References: Mary Bartlett Cowdrey, American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art-Union (New York: New-York Historical Society, 1953); Maybelle Mann, The American Art-Union (Jupiter, Fl.: ALM Associates, 1987).
182518231840
185518921852
New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1850 and 1851 (1851-1851)
1. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; PAINTED BY R.C.WOODVILLE.
2. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; ENGRAVED BY CHARLES BURT.
3. Inscription; Bottom center; Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1851, by the American Art Union, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.
4. Inscription; Bottom right; PRINTED BY J. DALTON
Genre scene
Ink; Paper (wove)
Etched, Engraved
11.65 (H) , 14.66 (W) , 9.2 (Image H) , 10 (Image W)
29.58 (H) , 37.24 (W) , 9.2 (Image H) , 10 (Image W)
H at left. W at bottom. Plate marks too faint to measure.
American Art Union
1851
New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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