Edward Hopper

(Study of a Fire Engine and Burning House)

1892–1895

Firefighters pull a steam-powered fire engine toward a burning building with smoke rising.

Firefighters pull a steam-powered fire engine toward a burning building with smoke rising.

Not on view

Date
1892–1895

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 7 15/16 × 10 in. (20.2 × 25.4 cm)

Accession number
70.1605.79

Credit line
Josephine N. Hopper Bequest

Rights and reproductions
© Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/31596

Part of a series:
(103 drawings)
103 works

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A small sailboat with two people leans on choppy water while two figures watch from shore.

A standing man in a long coat and helmet holds an axe amid scattered head sketches.

A large ink sailboat sketch above several small ink portraits of men's heads on paper.

Multiple quick pencil sketches of various heads and one reclining figure on blank paper.

Multiple ink sketches of varied faces and a woman standing with her hands behind her back.

A man in a hat offers his arm to a woman in a long skirt as they walk.

A small ink drawing shows a man in 18th-century clothes bowing and holding a hat.

A pencil sketch shows a smiling figure with antenna-like hair and a dress facing a seated silhouette.

A standing man in loose trousers and a fez leans with one hand near an archway.

See also

Edward Hopper
3,151 works in the collection, 68 exhibitions

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