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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1982.359.80
People
Mary Georgiana Caroline Cecil Filmer, British (1838-1903)
Title
Untitled (watercolor drawing inscribed "GAED 1868" surround by painted ribbon motif with ovals (some w/photographs) incorporated; clockwise from top center, Earl and Countess of Fife; Lady A. Duff; Mr. A. Hope; Viscount Holmesdale; Lady Mary Filmer; Sir Edmund Filmer; Viscountess Holmesdale; Lady A. Duff; Lady A. Duff; verso: photograph, group of 12 unidentified people seated on steps in front of building, woman on far left holding dog)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph, album page
Date
1862-1888
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/317556

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Album page with twelve trimmed albumen silver prints surrounding watercolor drawing; verso: albumen silver print.
Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
28.9 x 23.2 cm (11 3/8 x 9 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, NY, purchased from Christie's, 1978, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1982. On Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1978 to 1982

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
Object Number
P1982.359.80
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sitter information:

Recto, clockwise from top center:

Earl and Countess of Fife

Lady A. Duff

Mr. A. Hope

Viscount Holmesdale

Lady Mary Filmer

Sir Edmund Filmer

Viscountess Holmesdale

Lady A. Duff

Lady A. Duff

Verso:

Group photograph, sitter's not identified. Woman to left in striped skirt is holding dog.


Three of the ovals surrounding the watercolor do not have photographs but are labeled in graphite, possibly with the sitter's names.

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