A View of Greenbush on the Hudsons River near Albany in the Province of New York

1766

Thomas Davies English, 1737-1812

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About the Artwork

Title A View of Greenbush on the Hudsons River near Albany in the Province of New York

Artwork Date 1766

Artist Thomas Davies

Life Dates 1737-1812

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Watercolor and pen and black ink over traces of graphite on cream laid paper

Dimensions Image: 8 15/16 × 16 5/16 inches (22.7 × 41.4 cm) Sheet: 11 7/16 × 18 7/8 inches (29.1 × 47.9 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mrs. George F. Green

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 56.46

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Signed Signed and dated, lower right: Thos Davies Excund 1766

Inscriptions Inscribed, across lower margin: A View of Green Bush on the Hudsons River near Albany in the Province of New York in North America Inscribed, in pen and black ink, lower right, below image: Tho=: Davies Excudt: 1766 Inscribed, in pencil, upper center: View Near Albany Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper left: 28

Marks Watermark: fragment [IV?]

Provenance

Earl of Derby (Knowsley, Lancashire, England);
October 19, 1953, sold by (Christie's, London, England) no. 137.
(Frank T. Sabin Gallery, London, England).
1953, the Old Print Shop (New York, New York, USA);
1956-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bliven, Rachel D., et al. A Resourceful People. Norfolk, Virginia, 1987, pp. 16-17 (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA 36, 1 (1956/57): pp. 15-16, (ill.).

Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. Thomas Davies. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa, 1972, no. 23, p. 94 (ill.).

Hubbard, Robert Hamilton. Thomas Davies in Early Canada. Ottawa, 1972, pp. 26 (ill.), 34, 63, no. 8.

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 240-241, no. 114.

Jones, Agnes Halsey. Rediscovered Painters of Upstate New York. Exh. cat., Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. Utica, New York, 1958, no. 32.

Non-Academic Paintings of Rensselaer County: A Bicentennial Exhibition. Exh. cat., Rensselaer County Historical Society. Troy, New York, 1975, no. 1.

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Check List of the Paintings Acquired Before Jnuary 1967. Detroit, 1967, p. 33.

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Check List of the Paintings Acquired Before May 1970, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1970, p. 41.

Sears, S. W. American Heritage 29 (June/July 1978): p. 102, ill.).

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Thomas Davies, A View of Greenbush on the Hudsons River near Albany in the Province of New York, 1766, watercolor and pen and black ink over traces of graphite on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mrs. George F. Green, 56.46.