Mission San Diego
Ellen Day Hale
1892
Medium
etching on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 11.2 × 14.5 cm (4 7/16 × 5 11/16 in.) sheet: 27.9 × 32.2 cm (11 × 12 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2022.111.3
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Ellen Day Hale · 1855–1940
**Ellen Day Hale** (1855–1940) was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker whose career exemplified the determination of women artists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, into a prominent Boston Brahmin family, she was the daughter of author and orator Edward Everett Hale. Her extended family included notable figures such as great-aunt H...