- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1999.150
- People
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Margaretha Adriaensdr. de Heer, Dutch (Leeuwarden c. 1603 - between 1659-65 Leeuwarden)
- Title
- A Purple Flower with Dragonfly
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1644-1665
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/188638
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black, gray, brown, green, yellow, and violet transparent watercolor and yellow and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
- Dimensions
- 24.1 x 29.5 cm (9 1/2 x 11 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: Strasbourg lily, WR below
- Provenance
- [Mathaesson-Durand, Geneva], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1978; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.150.
NOTE: Provenance information from George Abrams, by recall.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- 1999.150
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Subjects and Contexts
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Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
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