Benjamin West
The Death of Aaron
1789
Physical Qualities
Brush and brown ink and brown wash, with opaque and transparent watercolor over graphite, Sheet: 738 x 522 mm. (29 1/16 x 20 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Blanche Adler Memorial and Women's Committee Funds
Object Number
1965.6
Verso of vertical sheet of paper on the right includes several graphite sketches that are difficult to make out due to mount
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Old Master Drawings from the BMA and Gilmor Collections," 10 October - 10 December, 1989.
Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawings and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7-May 8, 2016.
Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawings and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7-May 8, 2016.
Inscribed: lower left in brown ink: "B. West . 1790. / retouched 1803"; verso: none