Portrait of a Little Girl
Abbott Handerson Thayer, American, 1849 - 1921
not dated
Graphite on brown heavy wove paper
Sheet: 19 1/16 × 13 3/4 in. (48.4 × 35 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Hersey Egginton in memory of her son, Everett Egginton, Class of 1921
D.954.20.672
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower center (across knees of figure): Abbott H. Thayer; Numbered, upper left corner: 10[circled]
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 247.
Provenance
Collected by Hersey Egginton (1875-1951); bequeathed to his wife, Mary E. (Benner) Egginton (1875-1962), Garden City, New York, 1951; given to present collection, 1954.
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