1934.21: Hannah Crocker Bowles Wolff (Mrs. Phillip Wolff) (1827-1872)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1934.21

People

Richard Morrell Staigg, American (Leeds, England 1817 - 1881 Newport, RI)

Title

Hannah Crocker Bowles Wolff (Mrs. Phillip Wolff) (1827-1872)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1850

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231290

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor on ivory

Dimensions

10.9 x 8.9 cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: R.M.S. 1850
• inscription: verso: Hannah Crocker Bowles Wolff/by Staigg, 1850
• label: on verso: G.E. Cobb/346 Boylston Street/Boston

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of Dr. John E. Wolff, son of Hannah Crocker Bowles Wolff.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. John E. Wolff, class of '79

Accession Year

1934

Object Number

1934.21

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "Some Recent Acquisitions", Parnassus (April 1934), vol. 6, no. 4, p. 16, p. 16
• Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum Annual Report, 1933-1934 (Cambridge, MA, 1935), p. 14
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 442, cat. 403, ill.

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