William Trost Richards
1833-1905
Spouting Rock, Newport, Rhode Island
1877
14 7/16 x 10 inches (366 x 254 mm)
Watercolor and some tempera over faint preliminary sketch in pencil on wove paper.
1977.13
Purchased as the gift of Victoria Leiter Butler, Mrs. Robert Horne Charles, and Mrs. John Barry Ryan.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated in pen and brown ink at lower left, "Wm ["m" superscript] T. Richards 1877"; on verso, in graphite at lower right, "Sporting Rock, Newport. R.I. W.T R 1877"; at lower left, "D.L790".
Associated names
Butler, Victoria Leiter, donor.
Charles, Robert H., Mrs., donor.
Ryan, John Barry, Mrs., donor.
Charles, Robert H., Mrs., donor.
Ryan, John Barry, Mrs., donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 288.
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Century Drawings
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