Room 226

Amerikanische Grafik 1765–1814

1765–1814, USA, Klassizismus

Zeichnungen, Aquarelle und Druckgrafik aus den USA aus den Jahren 1765 bis 1814. Zu sehen sind unter anderem Werke von William Russell Birch, Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley und James Peale. Mit dem Klassizismus kehren klare Linien und Vorbilder aus der Antike zurück; zugleich entstehen Bildnisse einer neuen bürgerlichen Welt.

All works

• Man in a Great Coat
• John Temple
• Baptismal Wish for Catarina Titzlir
• The Boston Massacre
• William Penn's Treaty with the Indians
• Study for "The Death of the Earl of Chatham"
• Thomas Peyton
• A Deception
• Jephthah's Daughter
• Dancing Children
• Birth and Baptismal Certificate for Anne Andres
• Roan Duck
• Dr. John Bard
• The Disobedient Prophet
• Marcia Burns
• A. T. Kerr, Esquire
• General Washington
• Rose Bush and Butterfly
• Flowers and Vegetables
• Near Newport
• Spearing Eels
• Falls of the Potomac
• High Street, from Ninth Street, Philadelphia
• Harpsichord Recital at Count Rumford's, Concord, New Hampshire
• The Flight into Egypt
• Mending Nets on the Hudson River, New York
• Sweet Briar
• View from the Springhouse at Echo
• Five Birds with Their Eggs and an Insect
• Red-winged Starling, Female Red-winged Starling, Black-poll Warbler, and Lesser Red-poll
• Pinnated Grous, Blue-green Warbler, and Nashville Warbler
• Carolina Cuckoo, Black-billed Cuckoo, Blue Yellow-backed Warbler, and Yellow Red-poll Warbler
• Passenger Pigeon, Blue-mountain Warbler, and Hemlock Warbler
• Green Heron, Night Heron, Young Heron, and Great White Heron
• Louisiana Heron, Pied Oyster-catcher, Hooping Crane, and Long-billed Curlew
• Passenger Pigeon, Blue-mountain Warbler, and Hemlock Warbler
• Wood Ibis, Scarlet Ibis, Flamingo, and White Ibis
• Lolotte and Werther
• The Burning of the Theatre in Richmond, Virginia
• The Prodigal Son Revelling with Harlotsy
• The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony
• European Elk
• Castle on a River