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The Young Pedlar

Artist James Brown (American, ca. 1820-after 1859)
Date1850
DimensionsH: 24 in. (61 cm); W: 19 5/8 in. (50 cm)
MediumOil on canvas
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number
1959.20
Not on View
Published ReferencesCowdrey, M. B., National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860, New York, 1943, p. 54.

Cowdrey, M. B., American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union, Exhibition Record, 1816-1852, New York, 1953, p. 47.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, p. 27, pl. 32.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, April-June 1959," The Art Quarterly, vol. 22, 1959, p. 274, repr. 283.

Young, Mahonri Sharp, "From howling wilderness to Queensborough Bridge," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, p. 499.

O'Leary, Elizabeth L., At beck and call: the representation of domestic servants in nineteenth-century American painting, Washington, 1996, p. 90, fig. 3-10.

Exhibition HistoryNew York, NAD, 1850, no. 80.

New York, American Art Union, 1850, no. 222.

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