View of Venice
1888
Medium
watercolor and gouache on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 26.35 × 40.01 cm (10 3/8 × 15 3/4 in.) sheet: 28.58 × 41.91 cm (11 1/4 × 16 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee)
Accession Number
2014.136.184
About the Artist
Thomas Moran · 1837–1926
Thomas Moran (1837–1926) was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School whose dramatic paintings of the American West played a pivotal role in the creation of the national parks. Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, he emigrated with his family to Philadelphia as a child. He was largely self-taught, though he apprenticed briefly with a wood engraver and studied the work of J.M.W...