David McClellan

Benjamin Trott, David McClellan, ca. 1805, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, 1956.7.1
Benjamin Trott, David McClellan, ca. 1805, watercolor on ivory, sight 3 x 2 12 in. (7.66.2 cm) oval, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, 1956.7.1
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Artwork Details

Title
David McClellan
Date
ca. 1805
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sight 3 x 2 12 in. (7.66.2 cm) oval
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
Mediums
Mediums Description
watercolor on ivory
Classifications
Subjects
  • Authorities — Attributes — Objects — Mark Type — not dated
  • Portrait male — McClellan, David — bust
Object Number
1956.7.1

Artwork Description

These portraits were painted in 1805, after Benjamin Trott had set out on horseback for a yearlong journey westward. They are two of the many works created as the artist made his way through Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Ohio, states that then defined the nation’s western borders.

Works by this artist (15 items)

Sam Gilliam, Buoy Landscape III, from the suite Buoy Landscape, 1982, intaglio with screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Glen D. Nelson, M.D., 1998.57.9.3, © 1982, Vermillion Editions Limited, Inc. and Sam Gilliam; Minneapolis, MN
Buoy Landscape III, from the suite Buoy Landscape
Date1982
intaglio with screenprint on paper
Not on view
Sam Gilliam, Buoy Landscape I, from the suite Buoy Landscape, 1982, intaglio with screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Glen D. Nelson, M.D., 1998.57.9.1, © 1982, Vermillion Editions Limited, Inc. and Sam Gilliam; Minneapolis, MN
Buoy Landscape I, from the suite Buoy Landscape
Date1982
intaglio with screenprint on paper
Not on view
T. L. Solien, Memoir Den, from the portfolio Fragments of Hope, 1982, drypoint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Glen D. Nelson, M.D., 1998.57.20.6, © 1982, Vermillion Editions Limited, Inc. and T. L. Solien; Minneapolis, MN
Memoir Den, from the portfolio Fragments of Hope
Date1982
drypoint on paper
Not on view

More Artworks from the Collection

James Sharples, James Hillhouse, 1796, pastel on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. John Mason Frier in memory of her husband, 1969.42R-V
James Hillhouse
Date1796
pastel on paper
Not on view