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
Rights
Public Domain
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...