Polling [recto]

Walter Shirlaw

late 19th century

Polling [recto] by Walter Shirlaw

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 30.48 × 22.54 cm (12 × 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 33.97 × 25.4 cm (13 3/8 × 10 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Corcoran Collection

Accession Number

2015.19.3543.a

About the Artist

Walter Shirlaw · 18381909

Walter Shirlaw (1838–1909) was a Scottish-born American painter and illustrator whose career bridged the genteel tradition of academic figure painting and the emerging ambitions of American art in the Gilded Age. Born in Paisley, Scotland, Shirlaw emigrated to the United States as a child and received his early artistic training in America before traveling to Munich to study at the Royal Academy —...

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