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A Struggle for Happiness!...
Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810-1874)19th century
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Details
- Title: A Struggle for Happiness!...
- Creator: Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810-1874)
- Date Created: 19th century
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Roles: Artist: Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810-1874)
- Provenance: L. Vernon Miller, by inheritance; Kennedy Galleries, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Mr. and Mrs. J. William Middendorf II, New York; Walters Art Museum, 1973, by gift.
- Object Type: drawings
- Medium: wash on paper
- Inscriptions: [Transcription] A Struggle for Happiness! Mr. Tom Croesus builds himself a splendid double mansion which brings nothing but vexations and expensesΓÇöIn short he becomes a servant to his servants
- Exhibitions: Alfred Jacob Miller: Maryland and the West. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Washington College, Chestertown; Frostburg State University, Frostburg; Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, Rockville. 1988., Private Lives: Nineteenth Century American Genre Drawings. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995., A Baltimore Watchman: An Exhibition of Drawings by Alfred Jacob Miller. Government House, Annapolis. 1996., Alfred Jacob Miller: Watercolors and Drawings. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1984., Private Lives: Nineteenth Century American Genre Drawings. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1994.
- Dimensions: 12 7/8 x 11 5/8 in. (32.7 x 29.6 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. William Middendorf II, 1973
- Classification: Painting & Drawing
- Accession Number: 37.2510.21
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