Boy on a Ladder
c. 1840-1850
Medium
graphite on wove tracing paper
Dimensions
sheet (irregular): 20.96 × 13.34 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of J. William Middendorf, II)
Accession Number
2015.19.2642
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
James Goodwyn Clonney · 1812–1867
James Goodwyn Clonney (1812–1867) was an American genre painter and miniaturist whose warm, gently humorous depictions of rural and small-town American life place him among the most appealing practitioners of the antebellum genre tradition. Born in England and brought to the United States as a child, he studied drawing and miniature painting in New York and worked for a period as a miniature portr...