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Thomas Birch: Mouth of the Delaware   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Thomas Birch  (1779–1851)  wikidata:Q175370
 
Thomas Birch
Alternative names
Birch
Description American painter
Date of birth/death 1779 Edit this at Wikidata 3 January 1851 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London, England Philadelphia, United States of America
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artist QS:P170,Q175370
Title
Mouth of the Delaware
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date 1828
date QS:P571, 1828-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 50.8 cm (20 in); width: 76.2 cm (30 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,50.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,76.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q35525
Current location
Washington, D.C., United States
Notes

Notes from Kloss, William, et al. Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 2008:
"The scene may be near Lewes, Delaware, at Cape Henlopen, where the harbor pilots who guided ships safely through the shallows were brought aboard as the vessels entered Delaware Bay. Or the painting may instead depict the channel nearer the mouth of the Delaware River, perhaps at Deepwater Point.

"Storm clouds approach from the ocean. We know its direction, since the tide rolls inland here from left to right. Of the four boats shown, only the topsail schooner at the left is leaving to challenge the weather. . . . Heading upriver with the current, a nearly full-rigged merchant ship passes the schooner. The two sailors aboard the small sailboat appear to be furling its sails as the wind rises, while the sturdy fishing dinghy rowed by four men on single oars, with the coxswain reclining on nets in the stern, makes for shore."
Source/Photographer The White House Historical Association
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