<i>Evangeline in Search of Gabriel</i>
date: label: date made
content: 19th century
name: label: original artist
content: Schussele, Christian
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Evangeline, heroine of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1847 epic poem, is shown in a pensive moment during her long quest to find her lost fiancé Gabriel in the pencil drawing. In the poem the lovers are separated as they are expelled by the British from French Acadia in eastern Canada only to find each other many years later as Gabriel is dying. The drawing on beige paper is signed in purplish ink “C. Schuessele” with what might be a stamp. The oil painting of this subject, titled <i>Evangeline</i> is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: Canada: Nova Scotia
topic: label: Subject
content: poetry
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Ferris Collection
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. J. L. Gerome Ferris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.16630
label: catalog number
content: 16630
label: accession number
content: 119780
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: graphite (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 17.5 cm x 11.5 cm; 6 7/8 in x 4 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: support: 34 cm x 27.5 cm; 13 3/8 in x 10 13/16 in