William Russell Birch
Montebello – Ground Plan
1798-1799
Physical Qualities
Pen and black ink and gray wash over stylus incisions on paper, Sheet: 200 x 270 mm. (7 7/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Presented in Honor of Calman J. Zamoiski, Jr., President of the Board of Trustees (1977-1981), by his fellow trustees
Object Number
1980.165.1
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1980; C.G. Sloan & Co. Auction, Washington, D.C., June 8, 1980, lot 2301.
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, "The Landscapes of WIlliam Birch," December 1, 2010 - January 8, 2011.
Homewood House Museum, Johns Hopkins University, "Building Homewood," 20 September 20 - 29 December 2002.
University of Maryland Art Gallery, 26 October - 9 December 1984.
BMA, American Wing "Furniture Study", November 1981 - 7 January 1983.
Maryland Historical Society, "Francis Guy and His Contemporaries: Views from Maryland, 1790-1830," 10 April - 15 August 1981.
Homewood House Museum, Johns Hopkins University, "Building Homewood," 20 September 20 - 29 December 2002.
University of Maryland Art Gallery, 26 October - 9 December 1984.
BMA, American Wing "Furniture Study", November 1981 - 7 January 1983.
Maryland Historical Society, "Francis Guy and His Contemporaries: Views from Maryland, 1790-1830," 10 April - 15 August 1981.
Emily T. Cooperman and Lea Carson Sherk. "William Birch: Picturing the American Scene," Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, p. 80. fig. 46.
Emily T. Cooperman, "The Country Seats of the United States: William Russell Birch," Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009, p. 20, fig. 13.
