Unfinished Studies of flowers
Frances H. Clark, American, 1827 - 1858
about 1847
Watercolor on paper
Overall: 7 × 9 in. (17.8 × 22.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Fannie and Alan Leslie M.D., Class of 1930, Medical School 1931
2006.110.12
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on reverse, in graphite: "This unfinished one / undoubtedly by Frances H. Clark / (W. F. Swain's first wife) / Circa 1852
Provenance
The artist, Frances H. Clark Swain (1827-1958), Gilmanton, New Hampshire [first wife of Fannie Leslie's grandfather, William Fellows Swain, Class of 1850]; Estate of Fannie (1909-2006) and Alan Leslie M.D. (1910-2006), Class of 1930, Medical School 1931; bequeathed to the present collection, 2006.
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