Object Number 1957.0670 A

Object Name

Painting (Overmantel painting)

Title

Perry Hall, Home of Harry Dorsey Gough

Category

Paintings

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Henry Francis du Pont

Place of Origin

Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Subjects

Building view; Genre scene; Landscape; Portrait; Slavery

Materials

Oil paint; Canvas

Techniques

Painted

Dimensions (inches)

39.25 (H) , 53 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

99.695 (H) , 134.62 (W)

Measurement Notes

Measurements by sight.

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Gevalt, Emelie, et al. 2023 Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North.
• Published: p. 15, fig. 3a
[Book] Andrews, Dee E. The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture. 367.
• Image published on p. 178
[Article] Bevan, Edith Rossiter. 1950 "Perry Hall: Country Seat of the Gough and Carroll Families,". Maryland Historical Magazine. 45: 33-46.
• Published as plate no. 2.
[Book] Colwill, Stiles Tuttle. 1981 Francis Guy 1760-1820.
• Published in "works formerly attributed to Francis Guy", no. II, p. 111.
[Article] Gerdts, William H. 1985 American Landscape Painting: Critical Judgements, 1730-1845. 28-59.
• Published as fig. 9, p. 35
[Book] Pleasants, Jacob Hall. 1943 Four Late Eighteenth Century Anglo-American Landscape Painters.
• Published as no. XIV, pp. 290-291.
[Article] Pleasants, Jacob Hall. 04//1954 Francis Guy -- painter of gentlemen's estates. Antiques. 288-290, cover.
• Article discusses similar paintings
[Book] Richardson, Edgar P. 1986 American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
• Published as cat. no. 46, pp. 90-1.
[Article] Sweeney, John A. H. 11//1971 Paintings in the Winterthur Collection. Antiques. 100 (5): 758-767.
• Published as fig. no. 4, p. 762.
[Book] Vlach, John Michael. 2002 The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings.
• Published as fig. 2.7, pp. 60-2.
[Article] Roeber, Catharine Christie Dann, et al. Editor's Introduction. Winterthur Portfolio. 55, No. 1 (Spring 2021): 1-8.
• Published: p, 5-6. fig. 2, 3.