In the Newark Meadows
1879
Medium
etching in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 15.08 × 23.02 cm (5 15/16 × 9 1/16 in.) sheet: 19.53 × 27.94 cm (7 11/16 × 11 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. S.R. Koehler, Boston, Massachusetts)
Accession Number
2015.19.2464
About the Artist
Thomas Moran · 1837–1926
Thomas Moran (1837–1926) was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School whose dramatic paintings of the American West played a pivotal role in the creation of the national parks. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he emigrated with his family to Philadelphia as a child. He was largely self-taught, though he apprenticed briefly with a wood engraver and studied the work of J.M.W...