Illustration for Longfellow's "The Rainy Day"

Provenance

Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Illustration for Longfellow's "The Rainy Day"

Foster, Myles Birket

1850s

Accession Number

2009.70.116

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash and white and cream gouache over graphite, with parts of the distant mountains drawn with a stylus, on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 9.4 x 8.5 cm (3 11/16 x 3 3/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection