1937.7.21.6: Back of Child's Head, for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose"; verso: Lanterns and Plants, for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose"
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1937.7.21.6
- People
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John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
- Title
- Back of Child's Head, for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose"; verso: Lanterns and Plants, for "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose"
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- sketchbook page, drawing
- Date
- 1885
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/198113
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite on darkened off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 24.7 x 34.6 cm (9 3/4 x 13 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: u.r.c., red-brown ink: 6
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond
- Accession Year
- 1937
- Object Number
- 1937.7.21.6
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, England, 1998), under no. 33 (6 verso)
- Miriam Stewart and Kerry Schauber, "Catalogue of Sketchbooks and Albums by John Singer Sargent at the Fogg Art Museum", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 16-38, verso, repr. p. 27
- Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), p. 120, recto repr. p. 122, fig. 48, verso repr. p. 122, fig. 49
- Elizabeth Doe Stone, "Mobility and the Matter of Memory: John Singer Sargent's 'Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife'", Art History (March 2019), pp. 1-25, p. 9
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