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Beside a River - An Early Sketch in America

(English, 1769–1850)
1789–1850
Medium/TechniqueGraphite pencil, pen and brown ink
DimensionsSheet: 11.4 x 18.7 cm (4 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.)
Credit LineEllen Kelleran Gardner Fund
Accession number63.432
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsSigned in pen lower right on mount: "B. West"
ProvenanceFormerly collection of direct descendant of Benjamin West; Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London, England; purchased by MFA, April 10, 1963.
St. Michael
St. Michael
Raphael Lamar West
Decaying Oak, with a man sitting at its foot
Raphael Lamar West
1802
Jason and the Dragon
Jason and the Dragon
Raphael Lamar West
1780–85
A Rocky Landscape, North America
Raphael Lamar West
1789–1850
Hercules
Raphael Lamar West
Head of a Bearded Man Wreathed with Oak Branches
Head of a Bearded Man Wreathed with Oak Branches
Raphael Lamar West
1802
A Man seated by the Stump of a Dying Tree
Raphael Lamar West
1802
Aegisthus Viewing the Body of Clytemnestra
Benjamin West
1758–1820
The Brigand
Raphael Lamar West
Hercules killing a dragon
Raphael Lamar West
Wooded Landscape with a Stream in the Foreground
Wooded Landscape with a Stream in the Foreground
Raphael Lamar West
About 1800
Herne's Oak in Windsor, Little Park
Benjamin West
1788