About the Artwork
Figures in Classical Landscape
18th or 19th century
Thomas Birch
1779-1851
American
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Pen and brush and brown ink over graphite pencil on light tan wove paper mounted to second piece of tan wove paper
Sheet: 8 × 11 13/16 inches (20.3 × 30 cm) Mount: 12 1/4 × 16 7/16 inches (31.1 × 41.8 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Irving F. Burton
75.116
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, in brush and brown ink, lower left edge: Thos. Birch
Inscribed, on mount, in graphite pencil, upper right: Original Sketch | by | Thos. Birch Inscribed, lower right: Original drawing by Thos. Birch | presented to me by Geo. R. Bonfield | August 1866
Provenance
1975-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Thomas Birch, Figures in Classical Landscape, 18th or 19th century, pen and brush and brown ink over graphite pencil on light tan wove paper mounted to second piece of tan wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Irving F. Burton, 75.116.
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