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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.182
People
Margaret Laighton, American (1885 - 1966)
Title
Still Life with Bottles and Glasses
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308910

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on heavy off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 39 x 55.8 cm (15 3/8 x 21 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: old backing, now in curatorial file, black ink and graphite, handwritten: [black ink:] Margaret Laighton / Driftwood [crossed out in graphite and "Sunflowers" written in] / $100 [this work depicts neither driftwood nor sunflowers, so this label must describe another work?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge, Massachusetts, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
1969.182
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
There is a faint graphite sketch of a glass on the verso.

Verification Level

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