Study for "Toning the Bell"
Walter Shirlaw
c. 1874
Medium
brush and brown ink wash over graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 33.66 × 26.35 cm (13 1/4 × 10 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Miss Florence Heywood)
Accession Number
2015.19.1569
About the Artist
Walter Shirlaw · 1838–1909
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 —...