Southeast View of "Sedgeley Park," the Country Seat of James Cowles Fisher, Esq.

Q: When was "Southeast View of "Sedgeley Park," the Country Seat of James Cowles Fisher, Esq." created?

This artwork was created ca. 1819.

Q: Is "Southeast View of "Sedgeley Park," the Country Seat of James Cowles Fisher, Esq." in the public domain?

Yes, Southeast View of "Sedgeley Park," the Country Seat of James Cowles Fisher, Esq. is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Thomas Birch

ca. 1819

Medium

Painting

Classification

Painting

Department

Smithsonian Collection

Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Credit

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Accession Number

1993.41

Tags

FisherhousechurchfamilySedgely Park

About this artwork

Elegant and stately, this house was the first private residence designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an architect of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington. Latrobe designed the house and its well-ordered gardens between 1799 and 1802, high on a bluff overlooking the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia. Such environments reinforced the idea that even in a country dominated by wilderness, Americans could carve out settlements reflecting the high style of European sophistication. For this family, s...

About the Artist

Thomas Birch · 1779–1851

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Southeast View of "Sedgeley Park," the Country Seat of James Cowles Fisher, Esq.

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