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Bird Song, with Portrait of Jenny Lind

(American, 19th century)
Medium/TechniquePen and black ink on paper
DimensionsSheet: 65.7 x 58.6 cm (25 7/8 x 22 17/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number60.1126
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ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsInscribed above portrait in ink: BIRD SONG; below portrait: LADIES PENMANSHIP and two four-line stanzas; Designed and executed with a pen by / D. F. Brown.
Provenance1960, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 1960)