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On Display: House - Blackwell Parlor
Painting (Overmantel painting)
Perry Hall, Home of Harry Dorsey Gough
Category
Paintings
Place of Origin
Maryland; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Materials
- Oil paint
- Canvas
Museum Object Number
1957.0670 A
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1957.0670 A
Object Name
Painting (Overmantel painting)
Title
Perry Hall, Home of Harry Dorsey Gough
Category
Paintings
Place of Origin
Maryland; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Subject(s)
- Building view
- Genre scene
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Slavery
Materials
- Oil paint
- Canvas
Techniques
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
39.25 (H) x 53 (W)
Dimensions (centimeters)
99.695 (H) x 134.62 (W)
Measurement Notes
Measurements by sight.
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. 3aBook: Andrews, Dee E. The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture. 367.
• Image published on p. 178Article: 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. 35Book: 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 paintingsBook: 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.