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Hollyhocks: Study for a stained glass window
Hollyhocks: Study for a stained glass window

Hollyhocks: Study for a stained glass window

John La Farge (American, 1835–1910)
about 1881
Medium/TechniqueWatercolor with graphite pencil and ink on paper
DimensionsImage: 9.8 × 6.4 cm (3 7/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 22.5 × 16.9 cm (8 7/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Major Henry Lee Higginson
Accession number12.27
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsTop in artist's hand: A.68; in right upper margin: Try reversing this/ green next to red/ white outside/ you make it on/ a separate piece/ and put over; in bottom margin: - Outside - Antique green/ Next narrow band/ - Next band white opal, solid, with blue-green crack'd jade/ - these borders as at present - ie. dark red stick purple with a narrow band of yellow each side/ Scale 1"= 1'-ProvenanceHenry Lee Higginson (b. 1834 - d. 1919), Boston; 1912, gift of Higginson to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 4, 1912)