Landscape Vignette

William Trost Richards

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Caption

William Trost Richards (American, 1833–1905). Landscape Vignette, n.d.. Graphite on heavy paper, Sheet: 11 9/16 x 15 1/4 in. (29.4 x 38.7 cm) Image (oval): 5 1/8 x 5 7/8 in. (13 x 14.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Edith Ballinger Price, 72.32.14. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Landscape Vignette

Date

n.d.

Medium

Graphite on heavy paper

Classification

Drawing

Dimensions

Sheet: 11 9/16 x 15 1/4 in. (29.4 x 38.7 cm) Image (oval): 5 1/8 x 5 7/8 in. (13 x 14.9 cm)

Signatures

Signed in graphite below image, lower left: "William T. Richards"

Inscriptions

Verse inscribed in artist's hand, in graphite, in lower right of sheet: ' "Dream-Land- / Bottomless vales and boundless floods / Chasms and caves and Titan woods / With forms that no man can discover / For the dews which drip all over- / [line of dashes] / There the traveller meets aghast / Sheeted memories of the Past- / Edgar A. Poe-" '

Markings

At upper right of sheet, partial embossed stamp

Credit Line

Gift of Edith Ballinger Price

Accession Number

72.32.14

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