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Capture of the Tripoli by the Enterprise
Thomas Birch · 1806–12
Provenance
Ownership history
- Major William Boerum Wetmore, New York; Hiram Burlingham, New York; sold at Anderson Galleries, New York, January 11, 1934; French and Company, New York; private collection, Connecticut, to Richard York Gallery, New York, by 1991; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, <em>A Gallery of National Portraiture and Historic Scenes</em>, June 13–Oct. 10, 1926, cat. 26.
Literature
Published references
- Doris Jean Creer, <em>Thomas Birch: A Study of the Condition of Painting and the Artist's Position in Federal America</em> (MA thesis, University of Delaware, 1958), 57.
- "The AD Collection," <em>Architectural Digest</em> (December, 1990) 216 (ill.).
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