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The Family of the Artist

Artist Benjamin West (American, 1738-1820)

Dateabout 1785-1788

Dimensions7 5/8 × 9 3/16 in. (193 × 233mm)

MediumInk and wash drawing, mounted on paper

ClassificationDrawings

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1912.581

Not on View

Published ReferencesVan Devanter, Ann C., "Benjamin West and His Self-Portraits," Antiques, vol. 103, no. 4, April 1973, p. 766, repr. fig. 2, p. 765.

Kenin, Richard, Return to Albion: Americans in England, 1760-1940, Washington, 1979, repr. p.8.

Hill, May Brawley, On Foreign Soil: American Gardeners Abroad, New York, Abrams, 2005, p. 14, repr.

Neff, Emily Ballew, and Kaylin H. Weber, American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic World, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2013, p. 17, repr. (col.) p. 19, fig. 19.

Temple, Philip and Colin Thom, eds., Survey of London, South-East Marylebone: Part Two, Vol. 52, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2017, p. 780, repr. (col.) ill. 860, p. 780.

Exhibition HistoryDetroit Institute of Art, Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums, June-Sept. 1950, No. 60, repr. in catalogue.

Allentown Art Museum, The World of Benjamin West, 1962, no. 15, repr.

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery, Return to Albion: Americans in England, 1760-1940, 1979, no. 6.

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic World, Oct. 6, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014.