1986.438: Lady with a Carnation

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1986.438

People

Lilian Wescott Hale, American (Hartford, CT 1881 - 1963 St. Paul, MN)

Title

Lady with a Carnation

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1907

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/309345

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Charcoal on thick beige wove paper

Dimensions

58.1 × 36.7 cm (22 7/8 × 14 7/16 in.)
mount: 58.6 × 37.3 cm (23 1/16 × 14 11/16 in.)
mat: 73.3 × 50.8 cm (28 7/8 × 20 in.)
frame: 77.8 × 55.2 × 2.9 cm (30 5/8 × 21 3/4 × 1 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, l.c.: Lilian Westcott Hale
• blind stamp: STRATHMORE / DRAWING BOARD TRADE MARK [with design of thistle]
• stamp: backing board, black ink

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Estate of Isabella Grandin, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1986.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Isabella Grandin

Accession Year

1986

Object Number

1986.438

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• [Reproduction only], Exposé (Essays from the Harvard Expository Writing Program), Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1995 - 1996)., repr. p. 14

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