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The image depicts a landscape with a rustic building to the right, surrounded by grass. In the background, mountains rise with sharp peaks, and there are tall trees. The sky is lightly clouded with a muted color palette of earthy tones and light greys, creating a tranquil ambiance.
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The image depicts a landscape with a rustic building to the right, surrounded by grass. In the background, mountains rise with sharp peaks, and there are tall trees. The sky is lightly clouded with a muted color palette of earthy tones and light greys, creating a tranquil ambiance.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Aguirre House (Santa Barbara)

Henry Chapman Ford

Date
c. 1880
Medium
etching in black on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 10 × 20.16 cm (3 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.) plate: 14.29 × 24.29 cm (5 5/8 × 9 9/16 in.) sheet: 27.78 × 39.69 cm (10 15/16 × 15 5/8 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.929
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams, 1958)
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • etching
  • Trees
  • Mountains
  • Mission
  • Building
  • landscape
Provenance

Alice F. Williams, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1958; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Inscription

lower left in plate: H.C. Ford; lower right in graphite: Henry Chapman Ford

NGA object ID 181637. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.