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Hollyhocks. A Study

Hollyhocks. A Study

(American, 1833–1909)
1889
Medium/TechniqueEtching and drypoint
DimensionsSheet: 30 × 23.7 cm (11 13/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession numberK2054
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsUpper left, in plate: Hollyhocks. / A Study Lower left, in plate: JSmillie / 1889 Lower right: in graphite: James D. Smillie / Oct. 14, 1889
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA.

NOTE: Koehler was the first print curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.