Museum Object Number1968.0060 A |
Drawing (Watercolor drawing)
Harlem, the Country House of Dr. Edmondson, Baltimore
Works on Paper
Museum purchase
Nicolino V. Calyo (Painter)
Trained at the Naples Academy and immigrated to the United States early in the 1830s.
1799
12/09/1884
Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1834-1834
Building view; Genre scene; Landscape
Gouache; Watercolor; Paper (wove); Linen
Painted
Original stretcher with linen (or cotton) backing. High concentration of lead in black pigment suggests lead white may have been used as the opacifier.
16.75 (H) , 29.9 (W) , 16.2 (Image H) , 29.25 (Image W)
42.6 (H) , 76 (W) , 16.2 (Image H) , 29.25 (Image W)
H at left. W at bottom.
Hand colored with translucent and opaque watercolors
Text available soon.
[Book] Richardson, Edgar P. 1986 American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
• Published as cat. no. 61, pp. 118-119.
[Book] Arthur, Catharine Rogers & Kelly, Cindy. 2004 Homewood House.
• Published on p. 99.
[Book] 1941 A Century of Baltimore Collecting 1840-1940.
• Published on p. 31, illustrated on p. 32.
[Article] Cooper, Wendy A. 01//2002 American painted furniture: A new perspective on its decoration and use. Antiques. 161: 212-217.
• Published as pl. no. 1 and 1a (detail), p. 212.
[Article] Johnson, Susan. 1969 "Museum Acquires View of Baltimore Estate". Winterthur Newsletter. 15 (5): 1-3.
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[Article] 1969 "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums". Art Quarterly. 32 (1): 70.
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[Book] Pleasants, Jacob Hall. 1945 Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting in Maryland.
• Published on p. 48.
[Article] Sweeney, John A. H. 11//1971 Paintings in the Winterthur Collection. Antiques. 100 (5): 758-767.
• Published as fig. no. 12, p. 767.