# The Letter (Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Colgate)

- By: James Wells Champney (born Boston, MA 1843-died New York City 1903)
- Date: 1881
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: frame: 20 1/4 × 26 1/2 × 3 1/4 in. (51.4 × 67.3 × 8.3 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Walter and Lucille Rubin
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=123257)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/3b08bbfa6701acdfd770daee67d04eb5.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)