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Landing at Sabbath Day Point
John Frederick Kensettc. 1853
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Landing at Sabbath Day Point
- Creator: John Frederick Kensett
- Date Created: c. 1853
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 25.4 x 39.9 cm (10 x 15 11/16 in.) framed: 38.1 x 52.1 x 6.4 cm (15 x 20 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: Andrew Kirkpatrick Cogswell [d. 1887], New Brunswick, New Jersey;[1] his second wife, Virginia Claiborne Latrobe Cogswell, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Baltimore;[2] her son, John H.B. Latrobe Cogswell [d. 1967]; his half-niece, Mary V.R. Thayer [Mrs. Sigourney Thayer], Washington, D.C.; gift 1968 to NGA. [1] The provenance was provided by the donor of the painting in an undated memorandum (in NGA curatorial files). [2] A death date for Virginia Cogswell has not been established. An obituary for her husband in the _New York Daily Tribune_, 14 February 1887, states that she was then "at the point of death"; however, according to Mary Thayer (undated memorandum in NGA curatorial files), Virginia Cogswell and her son John "returned to Baltimore to live" following the death of Judge Cogswell.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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