San Francisco From Off "Meiggs" Wharf

Thomas Ayres (1816-1858)

Date

1855
Object Type

Drawings
Medium

Chalk and graphite on paper
Dimensions

13 x 23 1/8 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.l. signed and dated: Tho A. Ayres Del 1855
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

2005.6
Copyright

Public domain

The Allure of Paper: Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection

July 9–October 9, 2011

This special exhibition showcases one-of-a-kind works on paper never before exhibited together, chronicling the sweeping changes that occurred in American art over the course of nearly 200 years from portraiture and history painting to modernism and abstraction.

Location: Off view

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