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    The Houses of Parliament, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910, painter.
    Title: 
    The Houses of Parliament, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1881.
    Medium: 
    Watercolor on paper.
    Dimensions: 
    12 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (32.4 x 50.2 cm).
    Description: 
    View across the Thames River looking toward the Westminster bridge and the Houses of Parliament.
    Subject: 
    Architecture exterior -- Civic
    Cityscape -- England -- London
    Cityscape -- River -- Thames River
    Architecture -- Bridge -- Westminster Bridge
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Independence Avenue at 8th Street, S.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 66.2488.
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Homer, Charles S., Jr.,
    Homer, Charles S., Jr., Mrs.,
    Homer, Charles L.,
    Homer, Arthur P., Mrs., until 1956.
    Babcock Galleries, New York, New York 1956-1957.
    Hirschhorn, Joseph H., 1957-1966.
    References: 
    "Watercolors by Winslow Homer: the color of light," Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, fig. 15, pg. 88.
    Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden collection printout, 2008.
    Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. and Franklin Kelly, "Winslow Homer," Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1995, no. 107.
    Owner, 1975.
    Illustration: 
    "Watercolors by Winslow Homer: the color of light," Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, fig. 15, pg. 88.
    Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. and Franklin Kelly, "Winslow Homer," Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1995, pg. 200.
    Hendricks, Gordon, "Life & Works of Winslow Homer", N.y.: Abrams , 1979, Pl. 22, P. 147
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 61570296
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