# Study for "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way"

- By: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (American, born Germany, 1816 - 1868)
- Date: c. 1862
- Medium: graphite on gray-green wove paper
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: sheet: 31.75 × 50.8 cm (12 1/2 × 20 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Corcoran Collection (Gift of Rear Admiral E.H.C. Leutze, son of the artist, 1917)
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.184535.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/nga/efd9a2f3-6867-4e1e-800d-3b2497158ccd/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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