[Five sketches: one portrait, two marine views, exterior of a house, and one landscape showing trees] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Five sketches: one portrait, two marine views, exterior of a house, and one landscape showing trees], [between 1810 and 1840] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f8/f82dc3df8817-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Five sketches: one portrait, two marine views, exterior of a house, and one landscape showing trees]
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Five small sketches share one sheet of brown paper, moving from a portrait to two sailing vessels, the exterior of a house, and a landscape of trees. The mount bears the signature "T. Birch," which most likely refers to Thomas Birch (1779–1851), the English-born painter who worked in Philadelphia and became known for marine pictures. Rendered in pencil, ink and watercolor between about 1810 and 1840, the group suggests how an artist of the period might switch between people, buildings and water within a single working session. The sheet is part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.
| Created / published | [between 1810 and 1840] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 5 drawings mounted on brown paper : pencil, ink and watercolor. |
| Genre | Portrait drawings 1810-1840.Landscape drawings 1810-1840.Marines (Visual works) 1810-1840.Watercolors 1810-1840.Sketches Color 1810-1840.Drawings Color 1810-1840. |
| Notes | Signed on mount: T. Birch. Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress). Unprocessed in D 024 |
| Subjects | Dwellings--1810-1840. Sailboats--1810-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,643 × 3,816 px · prints to 15 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220230 |
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