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Drawing, Half Dome, Yosemite

This is a Drawing. It was created by Thomas Moran. It is dated 1872 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is brush and black wash, graphite on tan wove paper . It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Thomas Moran. It is credited Gift of Thomas Moran.

Its dimensions are

19.1 × 13.3 cm (7 1/2 × 5 1/4 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped, lower left corner, very faded: Museum for the Arts of Decoration, Cooper Union.

It is signed

Signed in black ink, lower right: TYMORAN. [TYM configured as the artist's mongram]

It is inscribed

Recto: Inscribed in pen and black ink and dated, from lower left to lower center: South Dome Yosemite, 1872; and again in graphite, lower margin: (16).

Cite this object as

Drawing, Half Dome, Yosemite; Thomas Moran (American, b. Britain, 1837–1926); USA; brush and black wash, graphite on tan wove paper ; 19.1 × 13.3 cm (7 1/2 × 5 1/4 in.); Gift of Thomas Moran; 1917-17-15

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.

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