Southeast+View+of+Sedgeley+Park,+the+Country+Seat+of+James+Cowles+Fisher,+Esq.

Date: ca. 1819
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1993/1993.41_1a.jpg?itok=In-HKU9L width="340" height="244" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/southeast-view-sedgeley-park-country-seat-james-cowles-fisher-esq-33679"]] || Title: **Southeast View of "Sedgeley Park," the Country Seat of James Cowles Fisher, Esq.**

Artist: **Thomas Birch** Born: Warwickshire, England 1779 Died: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1851

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 34 1/4 x 48 3/8 in. (87.0 x 122.9 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase made possible by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Accession: 1993.41 || Elegant and stately, this house was the first private residence designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an architect of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington. “Sedgeley Park”—the house and its picturesque gardens—quickly achieved landmark status and became a destination for visitors, who, like the group pictured here, could walk leisurely around the grounds.
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