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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1919.2
People
John Briggs Potter, American (Lansing MI 1864 - 1949)
Title
Portrait of a Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1892
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305974

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, watercolor and black chalk on heavy off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 40.3 x 31.3 cm (15 7/8 x 12 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l.: 1892 / J.B.P.
  • inscription: verso, l.l., graphite: [partially erased:] M. Potter [c/o Rue D[ ]phine?] [more text in graphite is cut off at lower edge as if the sheet was cut down]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1917.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Accession Year
1919
Object Number
1919.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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