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American Drawings

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Artist(s): Mather Brown (Boston, MA, Oct 7, 1761 - May 25, 1831, London, England)
Title: Tipu Sahib Taking Leave of His Children
Date: c. 1792
Dimensions: 16 5/8 in. x 21 15/16 in. (42.23 cm x 55.72 cm)
Medium: chalk on wove paper
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, museum purchase, 1942.22

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Periods and Styles: Early America

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

American Drawings, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1/29/1954 - 8/21/1954
The World of Benjamin West, Allentown Art Museum, 5/1/1962 - 7/31/1962
Figure Drawings from the Addison Gallery Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/15/1980 - 3/9/1980
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/13/1996 - 7/31/1996
On Paper: Masterworks from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/1/2003 - 4/6/2003
Art and Craft, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/30/2005 - 7/31/2005
Then and Now, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/10/2008 - 7/13/2008
[Permanent Collection 201-5], Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/12/2014 - 7/31/2014
The Art of Ambition in the Colonial Northeast, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/1/2019 - 12/15/2019

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