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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1941.18
People
William Sidney Mount, American (Setauket, NY 1807 - 1868 Setauket, NY)
Title
Portrait of a Woman
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of a Lady
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1842
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307681

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
24.7 x 19.5 cm (9 3/4 x 7 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: Wm S. Mount, del. / Jan. 1842

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Scott Kidder, Newton MA, Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1941.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year
1941
Object Number
1941.18
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Fogg Art Museum and Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Real and Ideal in American Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1948), cat. 15
  • Louise Todd Ambler and Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "American Painting at Harvard", Antiques (New York, NY, November 1972), vol. 102, no. 5, pp. 876-883, p. 877-878, fig. 5
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 46, ill.
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1976), p. 176, fig. 139
  • Marvin Sadik and Harold Pfister, American Portrait Drawings, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C, 1980), p. 58, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Real and Ideal in American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1948 - 09/01/1948
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 09/01/1976 - 10/26/1976; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 11/23/1976 - 01/23/1977; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 02/20/1977 - 04/17/1977
  • American Portrait Drawings, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 05/01/1980 - 07/31/1980

Verification Level

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