Sketch of Lady Hamilton; verso: Partial Sketch for Moses, Boston Public Library

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1931.74
People: John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title: Sketch of Lady Hamilton; verso: Partial Sketch for Moses, Boston Public Library
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1896
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/306483

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 17.4 x 10.3 cm (6 7/8 x 4 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: u.r., graphite: J. S. 305
inscription: l.l., graphite: J(?)EC 150

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; their gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1931.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond in memory of their brother, John Singer Sargent
Accession Year: 1931
Object Number: 1931.74
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 100, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 2002), p. 117, fig. 62, under no. 329

Verification Level

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