South-West Point, Conanicut
1878 / 1879
Medium
watercolor and gouache on fibrous brown wove paper
Dimensions
stretcher size: 13 × 23 1/4 in. (33 × 59 cm) framed: 97.79 × 165.1 × 6.67 cm (38 1/2 × 65 × 2 5/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Riggs Parker, honoring their children
Accession Number
2023.32.1
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...