About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Benjamin West
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Title
- Alexander's Confidence with his Physician Philip
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1769–1771
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Medium
- Brush and brown and black wash, with tan gouache, heightened with white gouache, with incising, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid card
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Inscriptions
- Possibly signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "B. West"; inscribed verso, lower left on mount, in graphite: "Benj. West."; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Doct. Partridge/ with Mrs. Margary‘s" [?]; lower right, in graphite: "KE"
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Dimensions
- Primary support: 21.8 × 30 cm (8 5/8 × 11 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 30.1 × 36.9 cm (11 7/8 × 14 9/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 2013.1045
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/151462/manifest.json