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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1927.137
People
Robert Hatton Monks, American (Boston, MA 1856 - 1923 Wellesley, MA)
Title
Portrait of a Young Woman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1905
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306386

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Colored crayon and scratchwork on off-white illustration board
Dimensions
42.9 x 30.8 cm (16 7/8 x 12 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, verso: Robert H. Monks / Deurle 1905
  • inscription: verso, blue crayon: No. 3
  • inscription: verso, black ink, French: "Portrait d'une jeune fille"/ Robert H. Monks/ Deurle 1905

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of the artist to his wife, Mrs. Robert Hatton Monks, 1923; her gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1927.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Robert H. Monks
Accession Year
1927
Object Number
1927.137
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 232, cat. 182, ill. p. 234

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