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The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale's Museum

Charles Willson Peale, Artist Titian Ramsay Peale, Artist
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The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale's Museum

1822

Charles Willson Peale (Artist) American, 1741-1827 Titian Ramsay Peale (Artist) American, 1799-1885

Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper

Sheet: 14 inches × 20 3/4 inches (35.6 × 52.7 cm) Framed: 24 3/16 × 30 1/4 × 1 1/16 inches (61.4 × 76.8 × 2.7 cm)

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Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund

57.261

Public Domain

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Inscribed, on verso: Interior of front room | Peale's Museum | State House | Philadelphia | 1822 | by T R Peale

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1957-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

American Panorama. Exh. cat., Denver Art Museum. Denver, 1968, p. 7.

Finch, Christopher. American Watercolors. New York, 1986, p. 36.

Hart, S. "The Many and Varied Activities of the Peale Family." Documentary Editing 8, 1 (1986): 8 (fig. 3).

The Peale Family, Three Generations of American Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1967, no. 209, p. 132 (ill.).

Poesch, J.J. "A Precise Viow of Peale's Museum." Antiques 78 (Oct 1960): 343 (ill.).

Smith, R.C. "The Museum of Art in the United States." Art Quarterly 21, 3 (Fall 1958): 298 (ill.).

Stein, R. B. "Charles Willson Peale's Expressive Design: The Artist in His Museum." The Annual of American Studies Prospects 6 (1981): 139-185 (fig. 2).

Sweeney, J.G. Themes in American Painting. Exh. cat., Grand Rapids Art Museum. Grand Rapids, 1977, no. 50, p. 507 (ill.).

Parson, Jennifer Stettler. Flora/Fauna: The Naturalist Impulse in American Art. Old Lyme, Connecticut, 2017, p. 83 (ill.).

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Charles Willson Peale; Titian Ramsay Peale, The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale's Museum, 1822, watercolor over graphite pencil on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund, 57.261.

The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale's Museum
The Long Room, Interior of Front Room in Peale's Museum