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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.21.6
People
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
drawing, sketchbook page
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
  • 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
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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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