Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

View in a Park

Benjamin West
1738-1820

View in a Park

14 1/4 x 21 3/4 inches (362 x 542 mm)
Black chalk on paper.
1970.11:218

Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Robert H. Charles.

Notes
Watermark: coat of arms with fleur-de-lis surmounted by crown, and letter W [Whatman].
A similarity in the treatment of the trees in this drawing, with their feathery foliage, to those of "Jacob and Laban and His Two Daughters," c. 1785, at the Wichita Art Museum, suggests a date for this drawing in the 1780's.
Associated names
Margary, Harry, former owner.
Charles, Robert H., Mrs., donor.
Bibliography
Kraemer, Ruth S. Drawings by Benjamin West and his son Raphael Lamar West. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 180.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department