Seascape
c. 1890s
Medium
brush and black ink with wash over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 15.24 × 20.96 cm (6 × 8 1/4 in.) sheet: 30.64 × 38.26 cm (12 1/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the National Academy of Design, Mrs. William F. Brewster Bequest)
Accession Number
2015.19.798
About the Artist
William Trost Richards · 1833–1905
William Trost Richards (1833–1905) was a prominent American landscape and marine painter born in Philadelphia, where he attended Central High School before beginning his artistic training. Between 1850 and 1855, he studied part-time under the German-born Hudson River School artist Paul Weber while working as a designer and illustrator of ornamental metalwork. He exhibited his first works at the Pe...