1941.18: Portrait of a Woman
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1941.18
- People
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William Sidney Mount, American (Setauket, NY 1807 - 1868 Setauket, NY)
- Title
- Portrait of a Woman
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Portrait of a Lady
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1842
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/307681
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 24.7 x 19.5 cm (9 3/4 x 7 11/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- Signed: graphite, l.r.: Wm S. Mount, del. / Jan. 1842
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Mrs. Scott Kidder, Newton MA, Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1941.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
- Accession Year
- 1941
- Object Number
- 1941.18
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Fogg Art Museum and Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Real and Ideal in American Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1948), cat. 15
- Louise Todd Ambler and Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "American Painting at Harvard", Antiques (New York, NY, November 1972), vol. 102, no. 5, pp. 876-883, p. 877-878, fig. 5
- Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 46, ill.
- Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1976), p. 176, fig. 139
- Marvin Sadik and Harold Pfister, American Portrait Drawings, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C, 1980), p. 58, ill.
Exhibition History
- Real and Ideal in American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1948 - 09/01/1948
- American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
- American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 09/01/1976 - 10/26/1976; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 11/23/1976 - 01/23/1977; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 02/20/1977 - 04/17/1977
- American Portrait Drawings, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 05/01/1980 - 07/31/1980
Verification Level
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