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The image depicts a rural scene with buildings, trees, a road, and the sky. The perspective is from an elevated position, showing a wide view of the landscape. The horizon is slightly above the center with a slope meeting the sky. There are buildings like a house and a barn on the left, surrounded by large trees casting shadows. The style of the image is detailed with fine lines, resembling an engraving. The color scheme is gray, emphasizing contrast and form. A road with a wooden fence leads into the scene, and the sky has soft clouds and diffused light.
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The image depicts a rural scene with buildings, trees, a road, and the sky. The perspective is from an elevated position, showing a wide view of the landscape. The horizon is slightly above the center with a slope meeting the sky. There are buildings like a house and a barn on the left, surrounded by large trees casting shadows. The style of the image is detailed with fine lines, resembling an engraving. The color scheme is gray, emphasizing contrast and form. A road with a wooden fence leads into the scene, and the sky has soft clouds and diffused light.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Birth Place of Daniel Webster, Salisbury, New Hampshire

Hammat Billings

Date
1851
Medium
engraving in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 10.64 × 17.78 cm (4 3/16 × 7 in.) sheet: 14.29 × 24.13 cm (5 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.919
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
  • Landscape
  • engraving
  • Trees
  • House
  • Birds
  • Farm
  • Fence
  • Buildings
  • 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. Billings; lower center in plate: Birth Place of Daniel Webster, Salisbury, N.H.; lower right in plate: E.A. Fowle; lower center in graphite by unknown hand: [undeciphered]

NGA object ID 181777. 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.