The White Girl | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: M25312
People: Timothy Cole, American (1852 - 1931)
After James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title: The White Girl
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Scribner's Monthly, August 1879
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1878
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/142864

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Wood engraving

Dimensions

block: 19 x 9 cm (7 1/2 x 3 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: verso, blue writing ink, hand written: note on provenance: Given to / A Dora Scott / by Timothy Cole / 1885

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Anna Dorothea Scott, Italy?, gift from the artist, 1885, gift or bequest to her second daughter. Scott was the great-grandmother of the donor. Scott's brother Will (presumably William Scott), who was crippled by polio, was apprenticed to Cole to learn a trade. Scott was about twenty-two years old in 1885, the date of gift written on the reverse of the print, and Cole was in Italy at that time. According to the donor, Scott's parents were born in Europe, and they were well off, if not rich, and so a trip to Italy for a twenty-two year old is not improbable. Anna Dorothea Scott married James Craigen Bruce in 1891, becoming A. Dora Bruce.
Naomi Bruce, gift or bequest from her mother, gift or bequest to her grand-niece, donor of pri.
Craigen Bowen, gift or bequest from great-aunt Naomi Bruce, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition: proof
Standard Reference Number: S. 108

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Craigen Bowen in memory of A. Dora Scott Bruce
Accession Year: 2002
Object Number: M25312
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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